♂ George Washington Custis (Maj. Gen.-CSA) LEE
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George Washington Custis Lee (September 16, 1832 - February 18, 1913), also known as Custis Lee, was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. He served as a Confederate general in the American Civil War, primarily as an aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis, and succeeded his father as president of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Early life Lee was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia. From 1850 to 1854 he attended West Point, graduating first in his class. His father was the superintendent at the time of his graduation. Custis Lee was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers as his father before him and served until he resigned from the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in the spring of 1861 after Virginia seceded from the Union. Civil War During the American Civil War, Custis Lee rose to the rank of major general and spent most of the war as an aide-de-camp to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Shortly before the end of the war, he commanded troops in the field and was captured at Sayler's Creek three days before his father surrendered to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Postbellum career After his father died, Custis Lee successfully sued in a case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court to regain title to the family mansion. Lee served on the faculty of the Virginia Military Institute and upon the death of his father, he served as the ninth president of Washington and Lee University, between 1871 and 1897. He died in Alexandria, Virginia, and is buried in the Lee Chapel, near his family members. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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