2023年6月12日 · General Robert E. Lee, a native Virginian who reportedly spent the night nervously pacing upstairs in his home, Arlington Estate, as he deliberated whether to lead the Union Army or fight...

How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be. The fight over Robert E. Lee’s beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades

2018年5月9日 · Lee and Mary Anna made Arlington House their home, but his service in the U.S. Army kept them on the move for many years. G.W.P. and Mary remained on the estate for the rest of their lives, and were both buried there, making theirs among the few graves at Arlington Cemetery that predate its founding.

Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington. Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army 's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).

2021年7月26日 · But in 2017, that specific 1100 acres is actually priceless, because it’s now called Arlington National Cemetery. It’s where the United States inters its honored war heroes. The first graves in Arlington National Cemetery were dug by James Parks, a former slave.

A West Point graduate and the son of a three-term Virginia governor, Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The Lees inherited the Custis estate in 1857 — including 196 enslaved persons, who lived and worked on the plantation.

Whether influenced by Meigs’ efforts to make the mansion uninhabitable or not, Robert E. Lee and his wife decided not to pursue regaining the title to the mansion after the War. Instead, the former Confederate General and his family settled in Lexington, Virginia where he spent the last five years of his life as the President of tiny ...

Robert E. Lee served as the executor of his father-in-law's will and never owned the property. After the Lees abandoned the property at the start of the Civil War, the U.S. Army seized Arlington Estate on the morning of May 24, 1861 to defend Washington, D.C.

Robert E. Lee. After the Civil War began in 1861 and Lee resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to fight with the Confederacy, he and his family fled south. The U.S. Army then seized the estate because its high ground offered protection for Washington, D.C.—not, as is sometimes claimed, to punish the Custis-Lee family.

2017年9月28日 · Arlington National Cemetery is a U.S. military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. The site, once the home of Confederate Army commander Robert E. Lee, is now the burial...