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Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee
1843–1914
A son of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, he wrote from close personal knowledge, preserving family memories and firsthand recollections of a defining period in American history.
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Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee
About the author
Born in 1843 at Arlington House, Robert Edward Lee Jr. was the youngest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee. He served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War and later worked as a planter and businessman before turning to writing.
He is best known as the author of Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (1904), a memoir-based work that draws on family papers and personal experience. Because of that intimate perspective, his writing has remained of interest to readers looking for a personal window into the Lee family and the era they lived through.
Lee died in 1914. Today, his work is read mainly for its historical and biographical value rather than as a broad literary career, but it still offers a direct and memorable voice from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.