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Persoonlijke gegevens Sydney Smith LEE 

• Hij is geboren op 2 september 1802 in Camden, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
• Titel: Captain
• (Known as) : Smith Lee.
• Hij is overleden op 22 juli 1869 in Richlands, Tazewell, Virginia, USA, hij was toen 66 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Henry III LEE en Anne Hill CARTER

Gezin van Sydney Smith LEE

Hij had een relatie met Anne Marie MASON.

Kind(eren):

1. Fitzhugh LEE  1835-1905

Notities over Sydney Smith LEE

Sydney Smith Lee (September 2, 1802 - July 22, 1869), called Smith Lee in his lifetime, was an American naval officer who served as a captain in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the third child of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Anne Hill Carter Lee, and the older brother of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Lee was born in Camden, New Jersey on September 2, 1802. At the age of 18 on December 30, 1820 he was appointed midshipman in the United States Navy and 8 years later promoted to lieutenant on May 17, 1828. During the Mexican-American War he fought in the Battle of Veracruz along his brother Robert; and afterwards was stationed there. He was promoted to commander on June 4. 1850 and accompanied Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853, commanding his flagship USS Mississippi.

Commander Lee served as commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy and Philadelphia Navy Yard. He resigned from the service on April 17, 1861, the day Virginia declared it had seceded though the resignation was not accepted. After dismissal on April 22, 1861 he accepted a commission as commander in the Confederate States Navy.

When the U.S. Navy abandoned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, Commander Lee became the commanding officer there. When Union forces regained it, he was put in charge of batteries at Drewry's Bluffs, Virginia. On May 6, 1864, he became chief of the Confederate Navy's Bureau of Orders and Detail, replacing Captain John K. Mitchell. Lee was promoted to captain, and remained at this post until the end of the war.

Lee fought for the Confederacy reluctantly. As late as 1863 he denounced South Carolina for "getting us into this snarl" of secession, complaining that Robert and his family had persuaded him to act against his love of the US Navy.

Family and death
Lee's wife was Anne Marie Mason of Virginia. One of their sons was Confederate Major General Fitzhugh Lee who later became Governor of Virginia, diplomat and writer; and served as Major General of U.S. Volunteers during the Spanish-American War. At least four more of his sons served in the Confederate States Army or Navy. After the war Lee became a farmer and died at Richlands, Virginia, on July 22, 1869.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith_Lee

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