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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.
His position gained for him an estate of some 300,000 acres and made him so powerful that he became known as King Carter. Henry Lee III was born on January 29, 1756, at âLeesylvaniaâ near Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia. He was the son of Henry Lee II and Lucy Grymes Lee. Lee III graduated from Princeton in 1773 and began pursuing a legal career. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he became a captain in a Virginia dragoon detachment.