(Signed) The Lady of Arlington: Life of Mrs Robert E Lee by Harnett Kane. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
Here is the story of a great man and of the woman who rose to greatness with him. For the first time the full story of Robert E Lee and his wife is told ... a story of de feat, then of moral triumph that rose out of loss and sorrow. This is a new aspect of the "Lee stors," the man as seen through the eyes of the woman. When Mary Custis, heiress of the magnificent Arlington estate on the Potomac, decided to accept a handsome, dark-haired young second lieutenant named Robert Lee, her father was not impressed Young Lee had little means, no estate and, some thought, no great career ahead; about the Lee name there had developed a shadow of tragedy....
Mary Lee never wavered in her faith in this man. Though otlers rose higher, she maintained her confidence and her hope. Then, as the black year of 1861 arrived, she stood with him when he received the breath-taking offer to head the Army of the United States. To accept meant to turn against his homeland, his Virginia, He took, instead, the generalship of Virginia's forces.
