Where is Robert E. Lee's grave?

Question: Where is Robert E!. Lee's grave!?

Is it in the Lee Chapel and Museum!? I just wanted to make sure!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Yes, Robert Edward Lee is buried in Lee Chapel, which is on the grounds of Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia!. also of intrest, buried next to the chapel is Lee's most famous war mount, Traveller!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

On September 28, 1870, Lee suffered a stroke that left him without the ability to speak!. Lee died from the effects of pneumonia, a little after 9 a!.m!., October 12, 1870, two weeks after the stroke, in Lexington, Virginia!. He was buried underneath Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, where his body remains today!. According to J!. William Jones' Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen!. Robert E!. Lee, his last words, on the day of his death, were "Tell Hill he must come up!. Strike the tent," but this is debatable because of conflicting accounts!. Since Lee's stroke resulted in aphasia, last words may have been impossible!. Lee was treated homeopathically for this illness!.[Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I don't know, but wouldn't it be in Arlington, considering that was his plantation before it was taken by the Union!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Robery E!. Lee in fact never owned Arlington house or plantation; he was a custodian thru inheritance; he had married one of the Custis descendants and it was her family's land prior to her marriage!.

Lee and his wife are buried at Washington University (Washington and Lee)

War is inevitable, and there is not telling when it will burst around you !. !. !. You have to move and make arrangements to go to some point of safety which you must select!. The Mount Vernon plate and pictures ought to be secured!. Keep quiet while you remain, and in your preparations !. !. !. May God keep and preserve you and have mercy on all our people!."

Following the ratification of secession by Virginia, federal troops crossed the Potomac and, under Brig!. Gen!. Irvin McDowell, took up positions around Arlington!. Following the occupation, military installations were erected at several locations around the 1,100-acre estate, including Fort Whipple (now Fort Myer) and Fort McPherson (now Section 11)!.

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Lee deeply regretted the loss of his home at Arlington!. During the early stages of the war, foreseeing the probable loss of his home and belongings, Lee wrote to his wife about Arlington:

"It is better to make up our minds to a general loss!. They cannot take away the remembrance of the spot, and the memories of those that to us rendered it sacred!. That will remain to us as long as life will last, and that we can preserve!."

Lee continued to feel responsible for the estate and earnestly hoped that the slaves who were left behind would be educated and freed, according to the provisions of George Washington Parke Custis' will!.

The property was confiscated by the federal government when property taxes levied against Arlington estate were not paid in person by Mrs!. Lee!. The property was offered for public sale Jan!. 11, 1864, and was purchased by a tax commissioner for "government use, for war, military, charitable and educational purposes!."

Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig!. Gen!. Montgomery C!. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House, appropriated the grounds June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery!. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return!. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep, and containing the remains of 1,800 Bull Run casualties, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders!. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards of Arlington House with his wife, father and son; the final statement to his original order!.

The federal government dedicated a model community for freed slaves, Freedman's Village, near the current Memorial Amphitheater, on Dec!. 4, 1863!. More than 1,100 freed slaves were given land by the government, where they farmed and lived during and after the Civil War!.

Neither Robert E!. Lee, nor his wife, as title holder, ever attempted to publicly recover control of Arlington House!. They were buried at Washington University (later renamed Washington and Lee University) where Lee had served as president!. The couple never returned to the home George Washington Parke Custis had built and treasured!. After Gen!. Lee's death in 1870, George Washington Custis Lee brought an action for ejectment in the Circuit Court of Alexandria (today Arlington) County, Va!. Custis Lee, as eldest son of Gen!. and Mrs!. Lee, claimed that the land had been illegally confiscated and that, according to his grandfather's will, he was the legal owner!. In December 1882, the U!.S!. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, returned the property to Custis Lee, stating that it had been confiscated without due processWww@QuestionHome@Com