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First World War.com - Who's Who - Robert Lee Bullard (329 words) |
 | Robert Lee Bullard (1861-1947) served as a successful U.S. field commander during World War One and led the first major U.S. offensive of the war at Cantigny. |
| Born on 5 January 1861 in Lee County Bullard graduated from West Point in 1885 having as a precocious child of six persuaded his father to rename him from William Robert Bullard to Robert Lee Bullard in honour of the U.S. Civil War Confederate leader. |
| Robert Lee Bullard died on 11 September 1947 at the age of 86. |
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Robert E. Lee - Academic Kids (2727 words) |
| Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the fourth child of Revolutionary War hero Henry Lee ("Lighthorse Harry") and Anne Hill (Carter) Lee. |
| Lee released Custis's slaves at the end of the five year period in the winter of 1862, and had the deed of manumission recorded at the court in Richmond, where it was acknowledged by the judge on December 29, 1862—five years, two months, and nineteen days after Custis's death. |
| Lee's sentiments were against secession, which he denounced in an 1861 letter as "nothing but revolution" and a betrayal of the efforts of the Founders. |
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