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14 de may. de 2024 · In early 1861, Mary Anna Custis Lee was torn over her state’s move toward secession. “[F]or my part, I would rather endure the ills we know, than rush madly into greater evils,” she confided in a letter to family.
Hace 3 días · While Lee was stationed at Fort Monroe, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis (1807–1873), great-granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband Daniel Parke Custis, and step-great-granddaughter of George Washington, the first president of the United States.
Hace 5 días · In 1804, Custis married Mary Lee Fitzhugh. They had four children, but only one, Mary Anna Randolph Custis , survived into adulthood. On June 30, 1831, she married future Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee .
13 de may. de 2024 · In 1831, Custis’s daughter, Mary Anna married Lieutenant Robert E. Lee in the main hall of the mansion. The couple resided there until 1861, when Lee took command of Confederate troops in the Civil War.
Hace 5 días · Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She created an independent business in the capital based on clients who were the wives of the government elite. Among them were Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis; and Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee.
27 de may. de 2024 · It was established during the American Civil War on the former estate of the family of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s wife, Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a step-great-grand daughter of George Washington.
Hace 3 días · George Washington Parke Custis, founder of Arlington Plantation, grandson of Martha Washington, step-grandson and adopted son of President George Washington, father to Mary Anna Custis Lee.
