Condemnation Decree filed in U.S. v. All the Rights, Titles, of Robert E. Lee (Robert E. Lee Confiscation Case)
04/15/1864
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After examination and deliberations, U.S. Attorney L. H. Chandler motions that the real and personal property of Robert E. Lee is confiscated and condemned to the United States in the case of U.S. v. All the Rights, Titles, of Robert E. Lee. Chandler further motions that a venditioni exponas be issued for the Marshal to sell the property at public sale, for cash, to the highest bidder; execute a deed for the real estate to the purchaser; and bring the proceeds of the sale into the Court.
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[printed] At a special term of the District Court of the United States of America for the EasternDistrict of Virginia, held at the Court Room in the [handwritten] Customs House Building
[typed] in the city of [handwritten] Alexandria [printed], on [handwritten] Friday the 15 th day of
April, [printed] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred sixty three
[printed] Present, the Honorable John C. Underwood, District Judge.
[handwritten] No. 85
United States
vs.
All the rights titles interests and the Estate of Robert E Lee in and to All that certain piece parcel
or lot of land and to the Home and buildings thereon situated lying and being in Alexandria
County in the Eastern District of Virginia known as the Arlington House Estate formerly owned
by George Washington Parke Custis and lately occupied by the said Robert E Lee Consisting of
Eleven Hundred acres more or less Together with all the goods chattels and the personal property
of the said Robert E Lee in and upon the said premises [illegible]
[printed] The papers in this cause having been heretofore returned, the usual proclamation having
been made, the default of all persons being duly entered, and notwithstanding said default,
witnesses having been called and examined by [handwritten] L H Chandler [printed] , Attorney
for the United States, and due deliberation being had on the pleadings and proofs, it is thereupon,
on motion of the said [handwritten] L H Chandler [printed] , ordered, adjudged, sentenced, and
decreed by the Court, that the real and personal property mentioned and described in the libel in
this cause, be, and the same accordingly is confiscated and condemned as forfeited to the United
States.
[printed] And upon like motion it is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the Clerk of this
Court issue a decree of venditioni exponas to the Marshall of the District, returnable upon
[handwritten] ascending [illegible word]; [typed] and that the said Marshal, after having given at
least [handwritten- Tene?] [printed] days notice of the time, place, and terms of sale [carrot-
handwritten in] of the personal property [printed] by publication thereof in [handwritten] the
Virginia State District in one or more [illegible word] [printed] published in the city of
[handwritten] Alexandriae. [illegible 3 words] dat. Notice of [illegible word] place and [illegible
word] of sale of the Real Estate by [persecutions?] thereof in one or more [illegible 2 words] in
the City of Alexandria and in one or more [illegible 2 words] in the City of Washington DC
[printed] sell the said property at public sale, for cash, to the highest bidder, and execute a deed
for the real estate to the purchaser, and bring the proceeds of said sale into this Court for its
action thereon.
[handwritten signature] John C. Underwood
Dist Judge
[2]
85 236
United States
Vs
All the rights titles
Robert E Lee
Decree
Filed & Extd.
April 15, 1864
Wm H Berry
Clerk
This primary source comes from the Records of District Courts of the United States.
National Archives Identifier: 279094
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