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  Mrs. Robert E. Lee: The Lady of Arlington
Price: $14.95
By John Perry
Many know about her husband, Robert E. Lee, and her great-grandmother, Martha Washington; many have visited the cemetery that now occupies her family estate. But few today know much about Mary Custis Lee herself. Chronically ill and often in excruciating pain, Mary raised seven children, faithfully witnessing to her husband for years before his conversion. She retained her dignity and faith throughout a fruitless, heartbreaking attempt to win compensation for the wartime confiscation of her home and possessions.
History is never more powerful than when it provides a role model for enduring hardship with sturdy and radiant faith. Mary Custis Lee is such an example.
400 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-59052-137-4, Waterbrook Press, 2003.
What's related:
• See the Lee and Grant exhibition
• See The Story of Virginia online exhibition
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