Mrs. Robert E. Lee: The Lady of Arlington

Many know about her husband, Robert E. Lee, and her great-grandmother, Martha Washington; many have visited the cemetery that now occupies her family estate. But few today know much about Mary Custis Lee herself. Chronically ill and often in excruciating pain, Mary raised seven children, faithfully witnessing to her husband for years before his conversion. She retained her dignity and faith throughout a fruitless, heartbreaking attempt to win compensation for the confiscation of her home and possessions. History is never more powerful than when it provides a role model for enduring hardship with sturdy and radiant faith. Mary Custis Lee is such an example.

• The Lee Girls
• Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee
• Varina: A Novel
• Old Plantation Days: Southern Life Before the Civil War
• Mary's World : Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston
• My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
• Martha Washington: An American Life
• The Lady of Arlington By Harnett T. Kane
• Lee
• The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book