Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general ... Lee projected a deep sense of duty and honor and was nicknamed the “Marble Model.” President of Washington College after the war, he lost his ...

On orders from generals Robert E. Lee and John Gordon ... is better remembered for his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn than his role in the Civil War, gave the side table and her ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium ... means his smaller army can afford fewer casualties, which Lee knows that Grant knows. And unlike the previous generals he ...

Lee, the Confederate general who led southern forces during the Civil War. In a 1998 feature on high school ... came under intense criticism in 2019 over a racist photo that appeared on his yearbook ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil ... E. Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war.