Mary's father, George Washington Park Custis, dies, leaving Robert E. Lee the executor of his estate. Lee returns to Virginia to temporarily manage the family estate, and finds his father-in-law ...

Despite their position in Virginia's ruling elite, the Lee family did not enjoy fantastic wealth. Without the money to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States ...

the house is now associated more with the man who married into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert ...

General Lee with his generals, 1907. Courtesy: Library of Congress Letter from Robert E. Lee to Winfield Scott, written two days after his meeting with Francis Blair where he refused command of ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert ... Lee projected a deep sense of duty and honor and was nicknamed the “Marble Model.” President of Washington College after the war, he lost his ...