Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee
wife of Robert E. Lee
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history of Arlington National Cemetery
- In Arlington National Cemetery
…Lee married Custis’s only daughter, Mary Ann Randolph, who inherited the Arlington estate upon her father’s death in 1857. On April 22, 1861, at the onset of the American Civil War, Lee left Arlington to join the army of the Confederacy. The area was quickly occupied by federal troops, who…
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