Wartime Washington(English, Paperback, Lee Elizabeth Blair)

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Wartime Washington(English, Paperback, Lee Elizabeth Blair) is written by Lee Elizabeth Blair and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252068599 (ISBN 10) and 9780252068591 (ISBN 13).

Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century family and the Mrs. Lee's unique perspective on the political and military affairs of the nation's beleaguered capital.