Apart from providing a husband and three sons for the Confederate armies, there was not a lot she could do, as she was increasingly incapacitated.
On being captured during the Peninsula campaign, she was allowed to continue on her way to Richmond, as a courtly gesture by the Union commander George McLellan, perhaps mimicking the Confederate style.
was the key general of the south during the civil war
Robert E. Lee
The overall commander of the Confederate States of America during most of the Civil War was General Robert E. Lee.
we stillgot cotton i guess lol :)
The two best generals of the confederacy had to be general Robert edward lee and general stonewall jackson.
Mary Anna Custis Lee died in 1873.
His wife, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, favored the Union and was surprised at Lee's decision to support his home state of Virginia in the Civil War. But his daughter, Mary Custis Lee, had been a supporter of the Confederate movement.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was born in 1788.
Belle Boyd, Mary Chestnut, Varina Davis, Mary Custis Lee, Susan Tarleton, Emily Todd, Emma Sampson, Martha Bulloch
Robert E. Lee married to Mary Anna Randolph Custis in 1831
Custis, she was descended from Martha Washington's family. Arlington, their estate, was her ancestral home.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Robert E Lee married to Mary Anna Randolph Custis in 1831
Her ancestral home was Arlington, Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
he married her in 1831