Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — GEN, FITZHUGH LEE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN, FITZHUGH LEE.

Somethin* of the Newly Appointed Consol General to Cuba. Gen. Fitzhngh 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 war of the rebellion. He was htftn in 1835 at Clermont, Fairfax County, Virginia, and was graduated front the military academy in 1850. 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 eause. 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 1802 Lee was made a brigadier cental M £ major general in lSt>3. At Winchester, in 18p4, he was disabled by a severe wound, which kepi_hJm from duty for several months. In 1805 he was placed in command tof the whole cavalry corps of the army of northern Virginia, and a mon th-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 ts. It is known that Gen. Lee, while being a fair man, warmly sympathizes with the insurgents.

GEN. FITZHUGH LEE.