From his isolated post, he learns in letters that his second eldest son, Rooney Lee, was having difficulties at Harvard. Mary's father, George Washington Park Custis, dies, leaving Robert E.

Robert E. Lee Memorial Association ... The great Southern diarist of his day, Mary Chesnut, tells us that when a lady teased him about his ambitions, he “remonstrated—said his tastes were ...

Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee was hated during the American civil war only to become a heroic symbol of the South’s “Lost Cause” - and eventually a racist icon. His transformation ...

From his isolated post, he learns in letters that his second eldest son, Rooney Lee, was having difficulties at Harvard. Mary's father, George Washington Park Custis, dies, leaving Robert E.