Alexandria Gazette

THE CENTENNIAL READER.—Col. Richard Henry Lee, who has been selected to read the Declaration of Independence at the opening of the national centennial, resides at Millwood, Clarke county, Va., and is actively engaged in the practice of law as well as farming operations. He was born in Alexandria, Va., in 1820, is a son of the late Edmund Jennings Lee, (a distinguished lawyer of that city,) and a grandson of Richard Henry Lee, of revolutionary fame. He is also a nephew of Charles Lee, who was Attorney General of the United States during a part of Washington's administration, and of "Light Horse Harry Lee," and a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Col. Lee entered the Confederate service as a lieutenant of infantry in the Stonewall brigade, and being wounded, afterwards served as judge advocate of the second corps, army of Northern Virginia, until the close of the war, since which time he has pursued his profession with success.