[2] Lee was tutored privately at home before being sent to Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Powell’s Female Seminary in Winchester, Virginia, where she studied Latin, French, music, and drawing.

[8][9] At Saint Mary's, Lee studied Biblical history, music, art, astronomy, Latin, and French.

And as I think both parties are in the wrong in this fractricidal war there is nothing comforting even in the hope that God may prosper the right, for I see no right in this matter.

"[1] When the Civil War broke out later that year, Mildred was sent with her sister, Annie, to meet her mother at White House Plantation, a relative's home along the Pamunkey River.

[9] In June 1862 her father asked Union General George B. McClellan to arrange a transfer for the family across Confederate lines so that they could join him in Richmond.

[9][2] After the war ended, and Arlington was seized by the United States government, the family moved to Derwent, a cottage on the James River that had been offered to them as a residence.

[2] It was here that the family began to depend on Lee as a provider of household service, causing her to feel increasingly unhappy and unfulfilled.

[2] The family later moved to Lexington, Virginia, where her father took up the post of president of Washington College.

[2] In her later years, she travelled abroad to Europe and Africa, attending the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza.

[13][2][14] Her body was taken by train to Lexington, where a delegation of Confederate Veterans and members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy awaited the arrival.