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cavalry he served in western Virginia under
Oen. W. W. Loring. When the Virginia troops
■were transferred to the Confederate States army
l)V prochunation of Governor Letclier, June 8,
It'Ol, lie was j)ronioted lieutenant-colonel and
ordered to Fredericksburg. He was promoted
colonel early in 1863 and was assigned to the
cavalry brigade of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart and with
Oen. T. J. Jackson's army was ordered to the
relief of the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,
confronted by the army of Gen. George B. Mc-
Clellan before Richmond. On June 1. 1862, Gen.
Robert E. Lee was placed in command of the
Army of Northern Virginia and Col. W. H. F.
Lee took part in the daring ride of Stuart around
McClellan's army, June 12, 1862. He was pro-
moted brigadier-general, Oct. 3, 1862, and com-
manded a brigade in Stuart's cavalry division,
iind at the head of 2000 cavalrymen he took part
in opposing Stoneman's cavalry raid. He opposed
the foi'ce of General Averill at Culpeper, April
50, 18615, and was forced to retreat tlirough the
place, being thus cut off from communication with
General Lee's army. At Brandj' Station. Va.,
■June 9, 1863, he was severely wounded and Gen-
eral Chanibliss succeeded to the command of his
brigade. Lee was subsequently captured by a
raiding party of Federal cavalry and imprisoned
in Fort Monroe and in Fort Lafajette, New York
harbor. He was exchanged in 1864 and on April
23 he was promoted major-general of cavalry
and commanded a division in the army of North-
ern Virginia, taking part in oi)posing the Treva-
lian raid of Slieridan in June, 1864, from Malvern
Hill. He failed to check Gen. J. H. Wilson's
raiding party which he encountered on the South-
side railroad near Petersburg, June 22, 1864, but
delayed Gen. J. B. Mcintosh, who commanded
Wilson's own division, and caused the loss of
.seventy-five of his men. In August, 1864, lie was
defending the Weldon railroad and on the 19th
at Vaughn road junction met Gen. G. K. Warren
wiien he operated on the flank of the Federal
^rmy. He had nearly succeeded in turning it
when General Spear supported Ijy General Griftin
forced his division back to within a mile of
Reams's Station. On Aug. 21 he joined Gen. A.
P. Hill's corps and re-enforced by a part of Hoke's
•division of Ewell's corps undertook to dislodge
Warren, then intrenched at Reams's Station.
He took part in the battle of Five Forks, April 1,
1865, where he commanded two brigades of
ca%-alry under his cousin, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and
on the Amelia Springs road, April 8, hSeO, his
-cavalrj' checked the advance of the Federal army
in the last struggle previous to the surrender.
He was paroled with the Armj' of Northern Vir-
ginia and he returned to White House, where he
rebuilt the residence and farm buildings destroyed
by the Federal army and engaged in cultivating
the plantation, iy65-74. He then removed to
Burke Station, Va. He was president of the
Virginia Agricultural society ; a state senator in
1875, and served as a representative from the
eighth district of Virginia in the 5Uth and 51st
congresses, 1887-91, and was elected to the 52d
congress in 1890. He died at Ravensworth, Va.,
Oct. 15. 1891.
LEEDY, John Whitnah, governor of Kansas, was born in Richland county, Ohio. ^March 8, 1849 ; .son of Sanmel K. and Margaret (Whitnah) Leedy, grandson of John Leedy, a pioneer of Richland, Ohio, and a descendant of Abram Leed}-, a native of Berne, Switzerland, who settled in Fredericksburg, Md., about 1720. In 1863 he tried to enlist in the Union army and was rejected on account of his youth, but re- mained with the company until the close of the war. He was a clerk at Pierceton, Ind., 1865- 68 ; and worked on a farm at Carlinsville. 111., 1868-75. In 1875 he was married to Sarah I. Boyd of Frederickton, Ohio, where he lived until 1881, and then purchased a farm near Leroy, Kan. He was originally a Republican, but from 1872 voted the Democratic ticket until the Pop- ulist party was organized in which he became a leader. He was state senator in the Kansas leg- islature, 1892-96; and governor of Kansas, 1897- • 99. He was defeated for re-election in 1898 by W. E. Stanley, Republican. In the spring of 1901 he settled in Valdes, Alaska.
LEFEVER, Jacob, rei)resentative. was born at New Paltz, N.Y., April 20, 1830; .son of Garrett and Catharine (Dubois) Lefever, grandson of Jonathan and Catharine (Freer) Lefever and a descendant of Simon Lefever " The Patentee. He was educated at New Paltz academy, and Amenia seminary ; and became a prominent banker. He was supervisor of the town of New Paltz, 1861-62; a member of the state assembly, 1863-67 ; a delegate to successive Repul>lican state conventions and to the Republican national convention of 1888 ; and a Republican represent- ative from the eighteenth district of New York in the 53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97.
LE FEVRE, Benjamin P., representative, was born in Maplewood, Shelby county, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1838. He attended Miami university, 1858-59 ; and .studied law at Sidney, Ohio, but subsequently engagetl in farming. He served in the Union army as a private, 1861-65; was nominated for secretary of state by the Democratic party in 1805 ; represented Shelby county in the Ohio legislature, 1866-68, was U.S. consul at Nurem- berg, Germany, by appointment of President Johnson, 1868-69, and was a Democratic repre- sentative from the fifth Ohio district, in the 46th, 47th, 48th and 49th congresses, 1879-87.
