article_snippet.sent: Most Virginians, including Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, insisted that of course Virginia had come first!  
article_snippet.sent: Generations of Lees had helped govern Virginia long before the States was born.
article_snippet.sent: But if Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was, first and always, a Virginian, Lincoln was an American.
article_snippet.sent: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee father came from Virginia, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee grandfather hailed from Pennsylvania, and before that, the family had probably lived in New England.