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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their FamiliesIn the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...
Mary's father, George Washington Park Custis, dies, leaving Robert E. Lee the executor of his estate. Lee returns to Virginia to temporarily manage the family estate, and finds his father-in-law ...
Despite their position in Virginia's ruling elite, the Lee family did not enjoy fantastic wealth. Without the money to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States ...
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