Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee

history of Arlington National Cemetery

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  In Arlington National Cemetery: History and lawsuit

  …Washington Parke Custis’s only daughter, Mary Ann Randolph Custis, 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,…

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