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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › George_Washington_Custis_LeeGeorge Washington Custis Lee - Wikipedia

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   George Washington Custis Lee (September 16, 1832 – February 18, 1913), also known as Custis Lee, was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. His grandfather George Washington Custis was the step-grandson and adopted son of George Washington and grandson of Martha Custis Washington. He served as a Confederate general in the ...

   • Years of service: 1854–1861 (USA), 1861–1865 (CSA)

   • Battles/wars: American Civil War

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3. www.nps.gov › arho › learnGeorge Washington Custis Lee - U.S. National Park Service

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   Jan 10, 2024 · George Washington Custis Lee. Born in 1832, Custis (or "Boo," "Bunny," etc.) was the oldest of the Lees' children and had the reputation of a trouble maker as a small child. But he grew up to be a serious, and most capable young man and graduated at the top of his class from the United States Military Academy in 1854.

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   Sep 22, 2016 · Danny Lewis. September 22, 2016. A late-18th century painting of George and Martha Washington with their adoptive children, George Washington Parke Custis and Nelly Custis, as well as...

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   Who was George Washington Custis Lee?

   • George Washington Custis Lee was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia. He was educated at numerous boarding schools to prepare him in his father's footsteps. He was educated at the classical school of Reverend George A. Smith in his younger years. He then entered the mathematical school of Benjamin Hallowell.

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   Who is George Washington Parke Custis?

   • Named George Washington Parke Custis, or "Wash" for short, the infant was taken in by his grandmother and Washington formally adopted him as his son, Matthew Barakat reports for the Associated Press.

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   Who was Custis Lee?

   • When Robert E. Lee became the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Custis Lee had constant contact with his father. In 1862, during the Peninsula Campaign, Custis Lee was put in charge of supervising the engineers at Drewry's Bluff .

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   Did Parke Custis have a family?

   • Parke Custis had a complicated family tree. Not only did he father children with several of Washington’s slaves, but his own son-in-law was Robert E. Lee, Sarah Pruitt reports for History.com. In fact, Lee once lived at Arlington House after it was given to him by Parke Custis, who built it as a kind of shrine to Washington.

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6. www.umd.edu › george-washington-custis-leeGeorge Washington Custis Lee | The University of Maryland

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   History and Mission. University Presidents. George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913), the son of Robert E. Lee and a former major general on Jefferson Davis's personal staff, was appointed president in December 1866 by the Maryland Agricultural College Board of Trustees.

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   Apr 26, 2023 · George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington by her first marriage, built the house intending for it to serve as a memorial for his...

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9. www.encyclopedia.com › reference › encyclopediasLee, George Washington Custis | Encyclopedia.com

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   views 3,650,146 updated. George Washington Custis Lee, 1832–1913, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. Fort Monroe, Va.; eldest son of Robert E. Lee. He served in the Corps of Engineers until May, 1861, when he resigned to fight for the Confederacy.

10. www.mountvernon.org › george-washington › marthaGeorge & Martha's Courtship · George Washington's Mount Vernon

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    Widowhood. As a young, attractive, wealthy widow, Martha Dandridge Custis probably enjoyed more freedom to choose her own destiny than at any other point in her life. She was only 26 years old, owned nearly 300 enslaved individuals and had more than 17,500 acres of land—worth more than £40,000.