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Hace 4 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 4 horas · In 1874, Mary Anna Custis Lee sued the U.S. federal government, claiming ownership of the Arlington Cemetery grounds. On December 9, 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in Lee's favor in United States v. Lee, concluding that the U.S. government seized Arlington Cemetery and its surrounding grounds without affording Custis Lee due process.
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 2 días · The property, originally built as a tribute to President George Washington, found its way into the hands of Mary Anna Randolph Custis, a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. In 1831, Custis married a young U.S. Army lieutenant named Robert E. Lee, and Arlington House became their family home. As the Civil War erupted in 1861, Lee, torn ...
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.
6 de may. de 2024 · 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. Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, wife to George Washington Parke Custis, daughter of William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh, mother to Mary ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Wash and his wife, Mary Fitzhugh Custis had only one surviving daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis. She grew up at the plantation and married her childhood sweetheart, Robert E. Lee at Arlington House in 1831.
