Mary Custis Lee

Photograph of the oldest daughter of Robert and Mary Lee, Mary, nicknamed “Sister.” She was an independent woman and defied convention for women of her day and traveled the world after the Civil War. She lived the longest of all the children, surviving until the end of World War I in 1918.

Paper. L 23, W 18 cm
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 2333

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