Despite their position in Virginia's ruling elite, the Lee family did not enjoy fantastic wealth. Without the money to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert ... Lee projected a deep sense of duty and honor and was nicknamed the “Marble Model.” President of Washington College after the war, he lost his ...

the house is now associated more with the man who married into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert ...