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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arlington (Va.)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02468874I
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1231241790
Author : Murray H. Nelligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1574200798
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Landscape architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433091389811
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PURD:32754061599811
Consists of 3 parts. Pt. 1 introduces General Lee and Arlington House. Pt. 2 presents a brief historical account of the house and its occupants, the Custises and the Lees. Pt. 3 provides concise information on the house and grounds.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1238070256
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arlington (Va.)
ISBN : UOM:39015059171515
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0912627239
Author : Ric Murphy,Timothy Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476677309
From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.
Author : Agnes Lee
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807867761
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.
Author : Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101202463
“Pryor’s biography helps part with a lot of stupid out there about Lee – chiefly, that he was, somehow, ‘anti-slavery.’” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com An “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe) – Winner of The Lincoln Prize Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic. Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and contradictory general's life story. Explained for the first time in the context of the young United States's tumultuous societal developments, Lee's actions reveal a man forced to play a leading role in the formation of the nation at the cost of his private happiness.
Author : Jonathan Horn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476748573
Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Scribner.
Author : Charles Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : UOM:39015075698186
Author : Candice F. Ransom
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822524376
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee.
Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101912225
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.
