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1. 1807Robert Edward Lee was born on January 19, 1807, at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, son of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III.
2. 1825He entered West Point in 1825, graduated second in his class, and married Mary Anna Custis at Arlington House on June 30, 1831.
3. 1852He distinguished himself in the Mexican–American War and was appointed Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point in 1852.
4. 1861When Virginia seceded in 1861, he declined a senior Union command and sent his resignation from the U.S. Army on April 20.
5. 1862He took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in June 1862 after Joseph E. Johnston was wounded at Seven Pines.
6. 1863After victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, he was decisively defeated at Gettysburg in early July 1863.
7. 1865He surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
8. 1865He was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, from October 1865, and died in Lexington of pneumonia on October 12, 1870.