The Lee Estate

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A Slave Plantation in Virginia


Another secret best left untouched.

 

   Another secret that not many people today are aware of is the interesting history concerning our nation's famous national military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. It's not well known that this property was once a Virginia cotton plantation owned by the most famous southern confederate general in history. The southern mansion that still sits on this property has a front portico where this general and his wife sat in their rockers and watched their children play on the front lawn. The graves of their black slaves still remain on the grounds that now host the graves of many military heroes.

   Less than two years after Robert E. Lee graduated from West Point, he married his childhood sweetheart, Mary Custis, and moved onto her father's plantation estate in Virginia. Her father's will provided that when he passed away, his daughter Mary would inherit the 1100-acre southern plantation, and her husband, Robert E. Lee, would be chief executor of the estate. Robert E. Lee and his wife lived on the estate for 30 years, raising their four daughters and three sons, being served by the dozens of black slaves who were members of the four black families that served on the estate and cared for the Lee family.

   When the Civil War broke out in 1860, Lee made the decision to side with the southern Confederacy. Union troops eventually occupied the estate, and at the end of the war the federal government decided to return the estate to the Lee family. A federal court later negotiated for a monetary settlement with the Lee family, and the plantation became what is now known as the Arlington National Cemetery. In light of current efforts to destroy all vestiges of the southern Confederacy, it hopefully won't become necessary to dig up the 400,000 heroes presently interred beneath the soil of this glorious symbol of the Old South.

 

 

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