WASHINGTON — More than 80 years after the death of Mary Custis Lee, eldest and most headstrong daughter of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, two steamer trunks full of her papers and travel ...

More than 80 years after the death of Mary Custis Lee, eldest and most headstrong daughter of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, two steamer trunks full of her papers and travel souvenirs have been ...

More than 80 years after the death of Mary Custis Lee, eldest and most headstrong daughter of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, two steamer trunks full of her papers and travel souvenirs have been fo… ...

Mary's father, George Washington Parke Custis, ordered his slaves freed upon his death in 1857, provided the estate was deemed financially sound, or by no later than five years afterward.

That is Mary Custis Lee, General Robert E. Lee's adventurous eldest daughter. In 1917, she stored these wooden trunks in the 'silver vault' in the basement of Burke and Herbert Bank and Trust in ...

Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee.

The Mary Custis Lee Chapter 1451 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy recently celebrated its 100th anniversary at the UDC Memorial Building in Clearwater.. The chapter was organized March ...

Mary Custis Lee, the eldest daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, led a nomadic life after her father's death in 1870. An unconventional free spirit, she traveled the world and ...

Custis’s daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married Lee in 1831, and preferred residing in Arlington House over living wherever her husband was stationed. Six of the couple’s seven children ...