Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — GEN. FITZHUGH LEE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. FITZHUGH LEE.

Something of the -vewly Appointed Consul General to Cuba. Gep. Fitzhugh Lee, the newly appointed consul general to Cuba, is a nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee and served under the

great Confederate leader during the was of the rebellion. He was born in 1835 at Clermont, Fairfax County, Virginia, and was graduated from the military academy in 1856. Commissioned as lieutenant in the Second cavalry, he went to the frontier, was severely wounded by the Indians and was recalled to be instructor of cavalry at West Point. When the war came Lieut. Lee resigned his commission and joined the Confederate cause. At first he did staff duty and was adjutant general of Ewell’s brigade. In September, 1861, he was made lieutenant colonel of the First Virginia cavalry and soon afterward was promoted to be colonel. He served in all the campaigns of the army of northern Virginia. In 1862 Lee was made a brigadier general and a major general in 1863. At Winchester, in 1864, he was disabled by a severe wound, which kept him from duty for several months. In 1865 he was placed in command of the whole cavalry corps of the army of northern Virginia, and a monUi later surrendered to Gen. Meade at Farmville and retired to his Virginia home. In 1865 he was elected Governor of Virginia. Gen. Lee goes to Cuba with absolute liberty to travel about wherever he pleases unobstructed and unrestricted by the Spaniards. Should the President desire any information concerning the state of affairs in Cuba the new consul general will be in a position to gather it. It is known that Gen. Lee, while being a fair man, warmly sympathizes with the insurgents.

GEN. FITZHUGH LEE.