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To clear everything up, I'm pretty sure Robert E. Lee wasn't Greek at all. He went to West Point US Military Academy. Someone w/ Baird's can check if there were ever fraternities there, because I don't know. He may have connections with some sorority but it would have to be ADPi or Phi Mu, because he died in 1870 around the time that most of the other groups (Pi Phi, Theta, Kappa) were getting started. (Unless the connection is w/ his daughter/granddaugher something like that).
Kappa Alpha Order claims Robert E. Lee as its "spiritual founder". To my knowledge he was never initiated or anything of that matter. KA was founded in Robinson Hall at Washington and Lee University (my school) during Robert E. Lee's tenure as President.
If I'm wrong on any of this, let me know, but I don't see how either Lee or Jackson could be in fraternities unless there were fraternities at West Point during their college years. (Jackson went to West Point and was later a professor at Virginia Military Institute (across the street from W&L) where Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau Omega were founded. Although now revered, his students hated him and made mean jokes about him through his tenure at VMI. VMI now bans all fraternities... Although I think the senior class might be "honorary" members of Sigma Nu... Or something... They come to parties sometime and try to pretend they are SNus... But since I know all of the SNus it does not work... Poor Veemies!)
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