Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee

Born in 1843 at Arlington House in Virginia, he was the sixth of seven children of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. During the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate army and later returned to civilian life as a farmer.

He is best known as an author for preserving family memories and stories connected to the Lees. His books helped shape how later readers understood his father and the household at Arlington.

He died in 1914. Though often mentioned because of his family name, his own legacy rests largely on the firsthand recollections he left behind.