Blanche Douglass Leathers was born in 1860. She was the first woman master and a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the daughter-in-law of Captain T. P. Leathers, who was commander of the Natchez in its historic 1870 race with Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....

. Her nickname was "Angel of the Mississippi."

She died in New Orleans on February 5, 1940 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 79.