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Lee's Horses at Stratford Hall website; General Lee's Traveller, On the Campus of Washington and Lee, brochure published by the Lee Chapel Museum, 2005. Magner, Blake A. Traveller & Company, The Horses of Gettysburg. Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth House Military Impressions, 1995. ISBN 0-9643632-2-4.
Robert E. Lee: Lee's favorite horse; Traveller died a few months after Lee in 1871, and was later buried beside him at Lee Chapel in Virginia Virginia: J.E.B. Stuart: Noted in Gettysburg Campaign [5] Warren: Bryan Grimes: Pulled Grimes' coffin during his funeral procession Yorkshire: Alpheus S. Williams
University Chapel (formerly Lee Chapel) of Washington and Lee University is a National Historic Landmark in Lexington, Virginia.It was constructed during 1867–68 at the request of Robert E. Lee, who was president of the school (then known as Washington College), and after whom the university is, in part, named.
The honor guard of Virginia Military Institute guarded Lee's body overnight at University Chapel at Washington and Lee University. ... 53 for Lee's celebrated horse, ...
This row of buildings occupy the top of a roughly north-south ridge. Down the hill to the east stands Lee Chapel, named for Robert E. Lee, who served as Washington College's president and is interred in a crypt within. After Lee's death, the school was renamed Washington and Lee to also honor his role in raising the school's status. [3]
Robert E. Lee and much of his family—including his wife, his seven children, and his parents, the Revolutionary War hero Major-General Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and Anne Hill Carter Lee—are buried in University Chapel (formerly Lee Chapel) on campus, which faces the main row of antebellum college buildings.
"Light-Horse Harry" was buried with full military honors, provided by an American fleet stationed near St. Marys, Georgia, in a small cemetery at Dungeness. In 1913, his remains were moved to the Lee family crypt at University Chapel, on the campus of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. [13]
Lee won both the house and the 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) surrounding the mansion, but was less interested in retaining the estate than gaining a cash compensation for its value. In 1883, Lee sold Arlington House back to the United States Government for $150,000. [5] In 1897, Lee resigned as president of Washington and Lee University.