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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
ject of Washington's first love. He was a son of glorious Legion Harry Lee, who used his sword gallantly in the old war for independence andArlington The Arlington estate was not the actual property of Colonel Lee. The late Mr. Custis, by his Will, left it to his daughter, MrsMrs. Lee, during her life, when it was to become the property of her eldest son, who also became a general in the army in rebellion against his G decease, which occurred in October, 1857. It is said that when Colonel Lee abandoned his home and his flag to make war on his Government, htler; Daniel, the coachman; and Aunt Eleanor, who was the nurse of Mrs. Lee in her infancy. These were all over seventy years of age, and wer In the midst of this garner of the ghastly fruits of the treason of Lee and his associates — fruits that had been literally laid at his door life-companion — the founders of Arlington House and the parents of Lee's wife. On that of the former we read the sweet words of Jesus, Ble