where the property, estate, mansion and slaves his wife inherited from her father were located.
Rubbish, the 'Virginia connection.' Besides, Lee was a career U.S. federal army officer for decades before the Civil War, the only job he could get because he had no land. His father Henry Lee screwed up, was bankrupted and relatives lost the 'ancestral Va. home,' Stratford Hall.
R. Lee, his mother and siblings, 'poor relations' had to live off his mother's relatives in Alexandria and elsewhere as a result.
When R. was age 5, his father, Rev. War hero, 'Lighthorse- Harry' Lee left the U.S. c. 1812 after suffering serious injuries in a Balto. mob and departed for Barbados. Years later on the way back to Virginia, Henry Lee stopped at Cumberland Island, Ga. where he died.
- Townhouse in Alexandria, Va. where RE Lee grew up after his father departed for the West Indies.
- Stratford Hall plantation where RE Lee was born, but didn't grow up in because his indebted father had to sell it.
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