Elizabeth Blair Lee
Elizabeth Blair Lee ( June 20, 1818 in Kentucky , † September 13, 1906 ) was an American who lived during the Civil War and wrote many hundreds of letters to her husband, Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee , describing the events of the time .
She was the daughter of the journalist and politician Francis Preston Blair and his wife Eliza Violet Blair. Her older brothers were Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
According to one version of the story, Elizabeth was with her father when they accidentally found a " mica speckled " layer sprouting near Seventh Street Pike (now Georgia Avenue ). Her father liked the location so much that he bought the surrounding land and built a summer home for his family called Silver Spring. The town of the same name was named after Blair's estate. The layer can still be found at Acorn Park today .
She was married to Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, a US Navy commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The letters to her husband were written while he was in command of the USS Philadelphia . They described war conditions in Washington, DC and Silver Spring , Maryland.
Individual evidence
- ^ Blair and Lee Family Papers . In: Papers of Elizabeth Blair Le . Princeton University . Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ↑ Virginia Jeans Lass: Wartime Washington. The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee . University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL 1999, ISBN 0-252-01802-8 .
- ↑ Jerry A. McCoy: Historic Silver Spring . Arcadia Publishing, Silver Spring MD 2005, ISBN 0-7385-4188-5 , pp. 26-32.
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| SURNAME | Lee, Elizabeth Blair |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American contemporary witness of the Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1906 |