The Lady of Arlington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lady of Arlington write by Harnett Thomas Kane. This book was released on 1953. The Lady of Arlington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of the wife of General Robert E. Lee who lived near Washington, D.C., and was considered one of the best hostesses of her day.
Mrs. Robert E. Lee
Mrs. Robert E. Lee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mrs. Robert E. Lee write by John Perry. This book was released on 2003-05-10. Mrs. Robert E. Lee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary Custis Lee, granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of Robert E. Lee, exercised an intense faith that won her husband to Christ, overcame chronic illness, and survived the confiscation of her home.
Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden
Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden write by Carlo DeVito. This book was released on 2015-04-14. Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mrs. Lee’s Rose Garden is an intimate retelling of Arlington National Cemetery’s tragic beginnings, and sheds new light on this profound chapter in American history. Mrs. Lee’s Rose Garden is the intensely personal story of Arlington National Cemetery’s earliest history as seen through the lives of three people during the outbreak of the Civil War: Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee, and Montgomery C. Meigs. With all the majesty and pathos of a Greek tragedy, this story unfolds as the war's inevitable spiral of betrayal, tragedy, loss, and death begins, ultimately transforming the nation’s most famous country estate into its most sacred ground. In the years before the war, the Arlington estate sat like an American Acropolis towering above Washington. Mary Custis Lee was known as the Rose of Arlington, a brash, young, willful, and charming young woman, indulged by her famous father, George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of George Washington. Artistic, well read, and highly intelligent, she was an avid gardener who spent as much time as possible tending the numerous flowerbeds of the Arlington Mansion, along with her mother and her three daughters. Handsome and dashing, Robert E. Lee was easily the most promising soldier of his generation. But long before he was a field commander he was also a great success in the Army Corps of Engineers, having worked on major projects around the U.S. His friend, Montgomery C. Meigs, who had served under Robert, was a scion of Philadelphia society, and rose to become the engineer responsible for helping to complete the capital, and one of the most accomplished builders of his generation. When the time for war arose, Lee refused the opportunity to head the Union Army. He could not draw his sword against his own state, his own people, and instead accepted a commission in the Confederate Army, pitting himself against many of his old comrades. Thus began a series of events that would ultimately pit these three against each other.
Lady of Arlington
Lady of Arlington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lady of Arlington write by John Perry. This book was released on 2001. Lady of Arlington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary Custis Lee, grandaughter of George Washington and wife of Robert E. Lee, exercised an intense faith that won her husband to Christ, overcame chronic illness, and survived the confiscation of the home she loved.
Growing Up in the 1850s
Growing Up in the 1850s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Up in the 1850s write by Agnes Lee. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Growing Up in the 1850s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eleanor Agnes Lee, Robert E. Lee's fifth child, began her journal in December 1852 at the early age of twelve. An articulate young woman, her stated ambitions were modest: "The everyday life of a little school girl of twelve years is not startling," she observed in April 1853; but in fact, her five-year record of a southern girl's life is lively, unpredictable, and full of interesting detail. The journal opens with a description of the Lee family life in their beloved home, Arlington. Like many military families, the Lees moved often, but Agnes and her family always thought of Arlington -- "with its commanding view, fine old trees, and the soft wild luxuriance of its woods" -- as home. When Lee was appointed the superintendent of West Point, the family reluctantly moved with him to the military academy, but wherever she happened to be, Agnes engagingly described weddings, lavish dinners, concerts, and fancy dress balls. No mere social butterfly, she also recounted hours teaching slaves (an illegal act at that time) and struggling with her conscience. Often she questioned her own spiritual worthiness; in fact, Agnes expressed herself most openly and ardently when examining her religious commitment and reflecting on death. As pious as whe was eager to improve herself, Agnes prayed that "He would satisfy that longing within me to do something to be something." In 1855 General Lee went to Texas, while his young daughter was enrolled in the elite Virginia Female Institute in Staunton. Agnes' letters to her parents complete the picture that she has given us of herself -- an appealingly conscientious young girl who had a sense of humor, who strove to live up to her parents' expectations, and who returned fully the love so abundantly given to her. Agnes' last journal entry was made in January 1858, only three years before the Civil War began. In 1873 she died at Lexington at the young age of thirty-two. The volume continues with recollections by Mildred Lee, the youngest of the Lee children, about her sister Agnes' death and the garden at Arlington. "I wish I could paint that dear old garden!" she writes. "I have seen others, adorned and beautified by Kings and princes, but none ever seemed so fair to me, as the Kingdom of my childhood." Growing Up in the 1850s includes an introduction by Robert Edward Lee deButts, Jr., great-great-grandson of General Lee, and a historical note about Arlington House by Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek, Director for Virginia of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association. The editor, Mary Custis Lee deButts, is Agnes Lee's niece.
