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Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.
28 Ιουλ 2019 · Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1808–November 5, 1873) was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and the wife of Robert E. Lee. She played a part in the American Civil War, and her family legacy home became the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
…Lee married Custis’s only daughter, Mary Ann Randolph, who inherited the Arlington estate upon her father’s death in 1857. On April 22, 1861, at the onset of the American Civil War, Lee left Arlington to join the army of the Confederacy.
8 Ιουν 2021 · On June 30, 1831, Mary married Lt. Robert Lee of the U.S. Army Engineers. The ceremony took place in the family parlor at Arlington House. Mary left her beloved Arlington to move into officers’ quarters at Lee’s first assignment after their marriage at Fort Monroe, but she did not adjust well to the life of an officer’s wife.
2 Μαΐ 2022 · Despite protests from Robert E. Lee, Mary Randolph Custis Lee settles in Richmond, where she can be under the eye of her son George Washington "Custis" Lee, a member of Jefferson Davis's staff, and occasionally see her husband. October 20, 1862.
He married Mary Anna Custis, great-granddaughter of George Washington 's wife Martha. While he opposed slavery from a philosophical perspective, he supported its legality and held hundreds of slaves.
7 Δεκ 2020 · In this letter to his wife, Mary Randolph Custis Lee, dated November 11, 1863, Robert E. Lee talks of family matters, the war, and ongoing issues regarding the estate of his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis.
