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Early Years. Confederate General who led southern forces against the Union Army in the American Civil War, Robert Edward Lee was born January 19, 1807, in Stratford Hall, Virginia.
Richard Henry Lee was the third son of a Thomas Lee, the empire builder, who as the 5th son of Richard Lee the emigrant, the largest Virginia landowner at the time of his death in 1640, received a modest inheritance. At an early age Richard Henry Lee was sent over to England for schooling at the academy of Wakefield in Yorkshire.