Built by George Washington Parke Custis between 1802 and 1818 to serve as a memorial to his step-grandfather ... into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining ... to the infirm and short-tempered general who carried the weight of Confederate hopes on his shoulders.