Mary Lee dreaded the thought of abandoning Arlington, the 1,100-acre estate she had inherited from her father, George Washington Parke Custis, upon his death in 1857. Custis, the grandson of Martha ...

WASHINGTON -- More than 80 years after the death of Mary Custis Lee, eldest and most-headstrong daughter of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, two steamer trunks full of her papers ...