military character added to the usual consular business. In this post (in which he was retained by President William McKinley until 1898), he was the first called upon to deal with a situation of great difficulty, which culminated with the destruction of the warship . Upon the declaration of war between Spain and the United States, he re-entered the army. He was one of four ex-Confederate general officers who were made major generals of United States Volunteers (the others being Matthew Butler, Joseph Wheeler, and Thomas L. Rosser). Fitzhugh Lee commanded the 7th Army Corps but took no part in the actual operations in Cuba. He was military governor of Havana and Pinar del Río in 1899, subsequently commanded the Department of the Missouri, and retired in 1901 as a brigadier general, U.S. Army. Lee was an early leader of the committee for the Jamestown Exposition, which would be held after his death at Sewell's Point on Hampton Roads in 1907. Lee died in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Fitzhugh Lee wrote the article about Robert E. Lee in the Great Commanders series (1894), General Lee, a wartime biography (1894), and Cuba's Struggle Against Spain (1899). Legacy After he was indicted for treason, Lee received a pardon. The Seventh Army Corps Association and Auxiliary dedicated a monument to Lee's service to the 7th Army Corps from 1898 to 1899, placing it in Monroe Park, Richmond, Virginia; the City of Richmond removed the monument on July 9, 2020, by the city, in recognition of Lee's participation in the Confederacy. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) United Confederate Veterans References Attribution Further reading Longacre, Edward G. Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2002. . Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . External links Fitzhugh Lee in Encyclopedia Virginia A Guide to the Executive Papers of Governor Fitzhugh Lee, 1885–1889 at The Library of Virginia 1835 births 1905 deaths 19th-century American diplomats 19th-century American politicians American military personnel of the Spanish–American War American people of English descent Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) Cavalry commanders Confederate States Army major generals Democratic Party governors of Virginia