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- ↑ The best secondary source for the Lees of Virginia remains Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr., Lee Chronicle: Studies of the Early Generations of the Lees of Virginia (edited by Dorothy Mills Parker; New York, 1957, 1997). A more recent treatment is by Paul C. Nagel, The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family (New York, 1990).
- ↑ Lee, Lee Chronicle, 55–68.
- ↑ J. Kent McGaughy, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary (Lanhan, Maryland, 2004), 117, 143, 234, 294
- ↑ Charles Royster, Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution (New York, 1981), 106, 109–11
- ↑ Elizabeth Fleming Rhodes, On the Fringe of Fame: The Career of Richard Bland Lee II in the South and West, 1779–1875 (Pasadena, California, 1990), 38–45, 72–83
- ↑ The only full treatment of Rooney Lee is Mary Bandy Daughtry, Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee (Cambridge Massachusetts, 2002).
- ↑ The fullest account the life of Fitz Lee is Edward G. Longacre, Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, CSA (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005).
- ↑ Lee, Lee Chronicle, 31, 33, 337, 361–62.
