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3 giorni fa · 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.
- 1829–1861 (U.S.), 1861–1865 (C.S.)
3 giorni fa · By Kevin M. Hymel, Historian on 5/20/2024. To commemorate the 160th anniversary of the establishment of a military cemetery at Arlington, ANC’s History Office led a public tour in Section 27 on May 13, 2024. Command Historian Dr. Stephen Carney and Senior Historian Dr. Allison Finkelstein described how the Civil War led to the cemetery’s ...
1 giorno fa · April 20, 2024 - Clearwater, Florida. Editor’s Note: Below is the content of Mr. Edgerton’s Keynote address to the Mary Custis Lee Chapter and the Augusta Jane Evans Wilson Chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
2 giorni fa · Her maternal great-grandfather, Thornton Gray, was an enslaved person, owned by Mary Custis Lee, wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Arlington, Virginia.
3 giorni fa · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the ...
5 giorni fa · first lady (1789-1797) Martha Washington (born June 2, 1731, New Kent county, Virginia [U.S.]—died May 22, 1802, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) was the American first lady (1789–97), the wife of George Washington, first president of the United States and commander in chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolutionary War.
4 giorni fa · George and Martha had no children together, but Martha had children from her previous marriage. Mary Custis Lee was Martha's step-great-granddaughter.
