Robert E. Lee had been honored in Virginia since 1889. In 1904, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was added to the observance, creating Lee-Jackson Day.

A portrait Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873), wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee,. She was also a landowner and the great-great granddaughter of Martha ...

They contained the letters and personal journals of Mary Custis Lee, the last surviving child of Gen. Robert E. Lee. In the autumn of 1918, just before the end of World War I, she took up ...

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 ...

They are part of an even larger collection owned by Mary Fals of Lawrence Township, who died last year at age 76. The exact number of autographs she'd collected still is being tallied, but likely ...

Prior to the Civil War, Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee, lived on a picturesque 1,100-acre estate, Arlington, on high ground in Virginia, directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

MARY LOU LEE Mary Lou Lee passed away peacefully in her family home at the age of 97 on September 20th. She was born on July 12, 1927 in Colusa, CA. Follow ...

George Washington Parke Custis passed the tents along to his daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, and her husband, Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Museum staffer Beth Ann Downey points at a fragment of a George Washington’s war tent displayed on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. A Virginia man ...

Mary Lee DeWald OBITUARY Mary Lee DeWald of Lake Forest, Illinois, passed away peacefully in her home on July 16, 2024, at the age of 90. Mary was predeceased by her parents, Henry Fraser and Mary ...

General Robert E Lee, who in 1831 married Mary Custis, heiress of Arlington House, lived here in the years leading up to the US Civil War. After joining the Confederacy, Lee left, never to return.