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After being released from jail in March 1810, Lee moved his family for a time to Alexandria, Virginia. In July 1812, after the outbreak of the [[War of 1812]] with Britain--a war he had opposed--Lee was involved in a riot in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], when he and several other Federalists defended a Federalist newspaper office against a Republican mob. Following the disorder, Lee and his friends were jailed; the mob subsequently broke into the jail and beat the men so badly that one later died, and Lee himself was left with permanent injuries, both physical and mental. He returned to Alexandria to recover (only partially successfully), then left the country in May 1813, touring the [[West Indies]] to fully regain his health. After fruitless wandering through the Caribbean, Lee began his return to the country in early 1818, but made it only as far as Cumberland Island on the [[Georgia]] coast, dying on March 25 at the plantation of Nathanael Greene's daughter Louisa.
After being released from jail in March 1810, Lee moved his family for a time to Alexandria, Virginia. In July 1812, after the outbreak of the [[War of 1812]] with Britain--a war he had opposed--Lee was involved in a riot in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], when he and several other Federalists defended a Federalist newspaper office against a Republican mob. Following the disorder, Lee and his friends were jailed; the mob subsequently broke into the jail and beat the men so badly that one later died, and Lee himself was left with permanent injuries, both physical and mental. He returned to Alexandria to recover (only partially successfully), then left the country in May 1813, touring the [[West Indies]] to fully regain his health. After fruitless wandering through the Caribbean, Lee began his return to the country in early 1818, but made it only as far as Cumberland Island on the [[Georgia]] coast, dying on March 25 at the plantation of Nathanael Greene's daughter Louisa.
==Family==
Lee was married twice: first, in April 1782, to his second cousin Matilda Ludwell Lee (1764-1790), known variously as "the divine Matilda" and "the queen of Stratford," then, on June 18, 1793, to Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829), descended from the powerful Carter family of colonial Virginia.
Lee had nine children by his two wives, seven of whom lived to adulthood. By Matilda Ludwell Lee:
* Philip Ludwell Lee (1784-1794)
* Lucy Grymes Lee (1786-1860)
* Henry ("Black-Horse Harry") Lee IV (1787-1837), a historian and speechwriter first for [[John C. Calhoun]] and later [[Andrew Jackson]]
By Anne Hill Carter:
* Algernon Sidney Lee (1795-1796)
* Charles Carter Lee (1798-1871)
* Anne Kinloch Lee (1800-1864)
* Sydney Smith Lee (1802-1869), captain in the Confederate Navy during the [[American Civil War]]
* [[Robert E. Lee|Robert Edward Lee]] (1807-1870), commander of the Confederate Army during the [[American Civil War]]
* Mildred Lee (1811-1856)
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