During the Civil War, Union Army troops cut down many of the trees on the Arlington estate, especially those to the north and east of Arlington House in and near Fort Whipple, which was north of the house and Arlington Springs near the Potomac River.

The Civil War ended with Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. In mid-September, 1865, the Lees moved to Lexington, Virginia, where Lee took up the post of President of Washington College.

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial. Arlington House, with the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy in the foreground, March 2020. ... Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The Lees inherited the Custis estate in 1857 — including 196 enslaved persons, who lived and worked on the plantation.

2020年11月3日 · Arlington House was less than three miles away from the White House – within the range of a rifled cannon. In a cabinet meeting on April 20, Secretary of State William Seward informed President Abraham Lincoln that if the Confederates placed an artillery battery atop Arlington Heights, Lincoln and his cabinet, “would not know at what moment ...

2024年6月3日 · After his family’s departure in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War (1861–1865), Arlington House became a Union army facility. In 1863 the United States government established a Freedmen’s Village on the property that was intended to serve as a model community for African Americans freed by the 1862 abolition of slavery in the ...

2024年7月14日 · Over the 60 years leading up to the Civil War, Arlington House was also home to nearly 100 enslaved African Americans who lived and labored on the estate. The National Park Service interprets not only the history of Robert E. Lee and his family, but also the stories of the enslaved people, including the Syphax, Burke, Parks, and Gray families ...

2021年12月30日 · Arlington House is the nation’s memorial to Robert E. Lee. It honors him for specific reasons, including his role in promoting peace and reunion after the Civil War. In a larger sense it exists as a place of study and contemplation of the meaning of some of the most difficult aspects of American history: military service; sacrifice ...

2025年1月1日 · With the coming of civil war, Arlington House ceased to be a home to the Custis and Lee families. Lee left for Richmond in April 1861 and accepted command of Virginia's forces. Mrs. Lee left in May as Union troops prepared to occupy …

Throughout the war, the Arlington estate also supported thousands of African-Americans fleeing enslavement in the South. In 1863, the federal government built a planned community for formerly enslaved people on the southern portion of the property called Freedman's Village.

In fact, the official principal significance of Arlington House, as defined today by Congressional legislation, stems from its association with Robert E. Lee – hence its legislated designation: “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial.” Accordingly, Arlington House is also a major Civil War Sesquicentennial site.