Mary G. Markoe of Baltimore, Maryland writes to General R.E. Lee describing the final days, death, and burial of her friend Anne Kinloch Lee Marshall, Lee's sister, in 1864. Anne Lee married Revered William Louis Marshall also of Baltimore, Md. In the final section of the letter, the author asks that General Lee provide her son, Francis "Frank" Markoe, a former Confederate officer, advice regarding taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. She includes the compelling three page letter from her son, Frank, dated May 25, 1865, written to her from Canada where he had travelled just after Lee's surrender at Appommattox. In it he clarifies his circumstances and his wishes to come home to Baltimore, but is unwilling to take the oath and return without Lee's blessing.