Anne Carter Lee

Anne Carter Lee (June 18, 1839 – October 20, 1862) was the fourth child and second daughter of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. She grew up at Arlington House on her family's plantation. During the American Civil War, she stayed with relatives at Ravensworth Plantation and White House Plantation. Along with her mother and sisters, she was placed under house arrest by Union troops in 1861 before being permitted to cross over Confederate lines to join her father in Richmond. Lee suffered from various health conditions throughout her life and died of typhoid fever at the age of twenty-three. She was buried in Warren County, North Carolina, where she died. In 1994, her body was interred at University Chapel of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. The Anne Carter Lee Monument stands at her original gravesite in Warrenton.

Biography Anne Carter Lee was born on June 18, 1839, at Arlington Plantation in Virginia. Lee was named after her grandmother, Anne Hill Carter Lee, and was a member of the prominent Lee family. She was a sister of Mary Custis Lee, Mildred Childe Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Eleanor Agnes Lee, and Robert E. Lee Jr. While away at boarding school in 1857, she was sent home with an intestinal problem.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Lee was sent with her sister, Agnes, to Ravensworth, their cousin's plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia. Upon learning of her death, her father wrote, "To know that I shall never see her again on earth, that her place in our circle which I always hope one day to rejoin is forever vacant, is agonizing in the extreme." In 1866, a group of women had an obelisk, known as the Anne Carter Lee Monument, built at her gravesite. In 1994, members of the Lee family arranged for her remains to be brought to Lexington, Virginia, where she was reinterred in the University Chapel. The moving of her remains had been protested by local chapters of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and members of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, who wanted the body to stay in North Carolina.