I’ve been to Lee’s home in Virginia. It’s a small house, but with a wonderful view................and the neighbors are some of the best and brightest in America..........
Which one? His home in Arlington or Lexington? I assume you mean Arlington because his home in Lexington isn’t what I would call small, but he died in Lexington, which is also where he is buried.
His neighbors there are also some of the best and brightest in America, because his home sits on the grounds of Washington and Lee University...
Arlington was Lee’s home in Virginia. Maj. Gen Mongomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army [and a son of the South], turned it into a war cemetery asfter his son was killed fighting for the Union in the Shenandoah Valley. Lee never returned to it.
It is a great and good irony isn’t it, that the National Cemetery at Arlington, is all on the old Custis-Lee plantation. Although his body lies in Lexington, I’m sure General Lee in Heaven is happy about the tens of thousands of heroes’ tombs awaiting the Last Resurrection on what was his land; now America’s most hallowed ground.
Which house? Arlington or his childhood home in...Fredricksburg?
I’ve been to the restaurant Travellers in Richmond - which is the house Lee returned to after the war and where he was photographed by Brady on the back porch. The back porch is still there along with the large iron-like door that can clearly be seen in the photo.
Nice.