The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-05-05
F1TzHUGE LEE DEAD.
Stricken W it'll Apoplexy While
on a Train-Dies in Wash
ington Hospital-A Life Of
Notwithstanding About
His Record.

Brigadier General Fitz hu g h
Lee, U. S. Army. retired, Presi-
dent OF the jamestown Exposition
Company, lecturer, di p o IN a i,
scholar and famous as soldier in
the Confederate Army during the
Civil War. died suddenly in Wash
ington. ID. c., Friday night at a
late hour.
He was stricken with apoplexy
at about = O'Clock Friday morning
while on a train en- route from
Boston to Washington and insist
ed on being carried to the end Of
his journey. He reached here at
10 o'clock Friday morning and
was removed to the Providence
Hospital, where he died at IL. 20
1 p. NJ.
His death came suddenly. At
8 p. m. Majur Guy l.. Eide, of he
Army Medical Staff, who had
charge of the case. issued a bulle-
tin stating that General Lees res
piratiOn was 80. his temperature
9S.S and his pulse 1l2.
AT his bedside when he died
were his brother, Daniel Lee, and
DrS. Edie and Kean. The end
came quite suddenly and was
without pain. The dead General
was doing fairly well considering
the severity of the attack until
about 10 p. M, when the change
came for the worse.
Mrs. FitZhugh Lee and two of
the daughters arrived Saturday
from Fort Oglethorpe, near Chick
amauga Park. These daughters
are: Virginia Lee, and Ellen. the
wife of Lieutenant Rhea, who is
stationed at Chickamauga Lieu
tenant George Mason Lee. son,
who married daughter of Gen
eral Burton, and Lieute an t
Brown and his wife. who was
formerly Miss Annie Lee, are in
San Francisco. There are on their
way East. A son Lieutenant
FitZhugh Lee, Jr., is in the Philip
pines.
General Lee was on the Federal
express when he was stricken. the
train being near a terminal of the
New York, New Haven and Har-
ford Railroad, in the vicinity of
the Harlem river. He first com
planned of a pain about the heart,
which was diagnosed. but later he
sustained serious stroke of paralv-
sis. affecting his entire left side.
The train was transferred to jersey
City and the Pullman car Ludlow,
in which General Lee rode. was
brought all the way to Washing.
ton. General Lees build was such
as to make him subject to apo
plexy.
The General was in Boston on
business conn ected wi h b
jamestown Exposition. which pro
ject he has been so interested in
and has done so much to encour
age.
His distinguished ancestry, his
br liant record as a soldier in
both the Con federate aud United
States Armies and his mastery
administration as Consul General
at Havana during the exciting
period leading up to the Spanish
American War made General Lee
conspicuous as man among men.
He was born November 10, 1885,
at Clermont, Fairfax county, Va.
He was the son of Commodore
Sydney Smith Lee, who was the
third son of General Henry Lee,
popularity known as Light Horse
Harry Lee" Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
was a nephew of the late General
Robert E. Lee and followed the
fortunes of his distinguished uncle
and of his native State in the
Civil War, but accepted, as did
the former, all the results of the
Var, aud since Appomattox has
served Virginia and his country in
a number of important official
capacities. To him perhaps az
TO no other man may be credited
that firm Ieuniting of the North
and South, which existed even be-
fore the war with Spain.
He was a graduate of West
Point in 1856 but at the outbreak
of the Civil War he left his Com
pany the 2nd Cavalry to join the
cause of the South. His services
as gallant cavalryman are we'll
known in history. In recent times
he distinguished himseIfas Consul
General at Havana when the
Maine was blown up-he having
advised against sending the war.
ships to Cuban waters on account
of the intense feeling.
In May 1898 he was appointed
Major, General of Volunteers and
went to Cuba in command of the
Seventh Army Corps. He was
honorably discharged April IL,
1899, and breveted Brigadier- Gen
eral of the regular army aud in
February, 1901, he was appointed