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Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, VA 22211 

Website: www.nps.gov/arho

Home of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. The Union seized the estate, converting it into a training center and later a cemetery.

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