Joel Robert Lee – Colonel, United States Army

Joel Robert Lee of Alabama

Served in the United States Army as Private and Corporal, A Battery, 4th U. S. Artillery, 6 August 1892 to 5 November 1895
Private, 1st U. S. Artillery and Hospital Steward, 22 September 1896 to 18 April 1899
Second Lietuenant, 10th U. S. Infantry, 5 April 1899
First Lieutenant, 2 February 1901
Progressed through the ranks to Colonel, United States Army
Died on 20 June 1920


Joel Robert Lee was a Lieutenant or Captain in the United States Army Medical Corps during the Spanish-American War. He also served in Served in Cuba and Phillipines. he married Red Cross nurse Harriet Gaddis in 1900 at Morro Castle, Cuba. Harriet followed him to Phillipines in 1901 and she died there that same year.

Joel was been from Alabama. Harriet was from Uniontown, Pennsylvania.


LEE, JOEL ROBERT

  • COL   US ARMY
  • VETERAN SERVICE DATES: 06/01/1906 – 06/01/1926
  • DATE OF BIRTH: 04/18/1872
  • DATE OF DEATH: 06/18/1926
  • DATE OF INTERMENT: 06/20/1926
  • BURIED AT: SECTION 4  SITE 3280
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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