The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-04-29
GENERAL FITzHUGH lee
SUCCNBS TO APOPLEKY
PASSES AWAY IN A WASHINGTON
HOSPITAL.

End Peaceful and without Pain-Re-
mained Conscious Until Five Minutes
Before Death--of His Family of a
Wife and Five children None Are
Able to be at His Bedside-Nephew
of General Robert e. Lee.
Washington, April 2S.-G General Fitz-
hugh Lee. u. S. A. (retired), and one of
Virginia's foremost sons. died at the
Providence hospital here at 11:SO o'clock
tonight from an attack of apoplexy
which he suffered early this morning
on a train while en- route from Boston
to Washington. After General Lee had
been removed to the hospital this morn
ing 1t was evident to the attending ply
sicians that his case was a very serious
one, but they believed that his strong
vitality and will power would assist
materially in partial recovery, at
least, from the attack. His condition
remained fair, considering the severity
! Of the attack, during the day, but short
1y after o'clock he began to grow
weaker, his breathing became more
rapid and his pulse lower, terminating
in less than two hours in death. The
end was peaceful and without pain, the
general remaining conscious until with
in five minutes of the end. Half an
hour before death General Lee recog-
nized his brother, Daniel Lee, who
came into the room for a moment
In the room when he died were DIR.
Montgomery, one of the physicians at
the hospital; Miss Dorsey, a relative,
and nurse, two of the attending ply
sicians, Drs. Edie and Kean, having re
tired temporarily. pathetic feature
of the case is that, although General
Lee was blessed with family consist
ing of wife and five children, not one
of them was with him at the time of his
death. The general was sixty eight
years old.
Arrangements for General Lees fu-
neral, together with the selection of the
place of interment, will not be made
until after the arrival in Washington
of Mrs. Lee, who is now on her way to
washington frcm Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Meanwhile the body will remain at the
hospital. 1t is possible that the body
may be laid to rest in the National
cemetery at Arlington. although it is
expected that General Lees friends
may make an effort to have a site chos-
en- elsewhere in Virginia, the state in
which he lived SO many years and with
whose interests he was SO strongly
identified.
General Lee was a nephew of the fa-
NOUS Confederate general, Robert p.
Lee, and, like him, saw active service
in the Confederacy. In Washington he
was we'll and popularity known, and his
appearance on public occasions always
was the signal for outbursts Of ap-
plause from hosts of admiring friends.
AZ widow and five children survive
General Lee. Two of the boys are army
officers and two of the girls are wives
OF army officers, while the remaining
child is a young woman still in her
teens. The children are Mrs. ]. G..
Rhea, wife of Lieutenant Rhea, now at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga; Lieutenant Fftz-
hugh Lee, OF the cavalry, now in Ma
nila; Lieutenant George Mason Lee, of
the Seventh cavalry now in San Fran
cisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wife of Iieu-
tenant Brown of the Seventh cavalry,
now at San Francisco, and Miss Vir-
ginia Lee.
AT the time Of his death General Lee
was president of the exposition COM
pany engaged in con1memorating the
settlement at jamestown by means of
a land and sea display and military and
naval exhibit at Hampton Roads. and
it was in its interest he went to Bos-
ton.
General Lee was a graduate Of West
Point. Prior to the civil war, at the
beginning of which ne resigned his
commission in the United States army,
General Lee saw considerable frontier
duty in movements against the Indians
He was an expert cavafry officer and on
one occasion, June 16, 1860, he was en-
gagged in hand to hand encounter
with Comanche Indians near Camp
Colorado Texas. His services in the
Confederate army as major general are
well known and during the interval
between this war and his active work
In the Spanish war, General
Lee filled a number of important posi-
tions, including the governorship Of
Virginia, the presidency of the Pitts
burg and Virginia railroad, the collec-
torship of internal revenue for the
Lynchburg district, and the consul gen.
eralship at Havana, when the Maine
was blown uD. General Lee was hon.
orably discharged from the volunteer
army on March 2, 1901, having been ap-
pointed to the regular army February
IL, 1901, with the rank of brigadier gen.
eral, with which rank he was retired in
the March following.
Mrs. Lee Starts for Washington.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 2S.-Mrs.