Mary "Daughter" Lee

Mary Custis "Daughter" Lee was the eldest daughter of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee.

Mary "Daughter" Lee in The Guns of the South
Mary Custis "Daughter" Lee was the eldest daughter of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. Due to her mother's disability from rheumatism, "Daughter" Lee took on many of the tasks of running the Lee household on her mother's behalf during the Second American Revolution. After General Lee was elected President of the Confederate States he reflected that much of the duties of First Lady would have fallen on his daughter even if his wife had not been brutally murdered during an attempt on his life.

Mary, along with the President's aide Charles Marshall "conspired" to gain access to medicinal nitroglycerin from Colonel George Rains at the powder works in Augusta, Georgia.