While in prison, he writes his Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department about the Revolutionary War. The childhood home of Robert E. Lee in Alexandria, Virginia. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... July 1862. Lee followed this with an offensive drive northward that culminated in victory at Second Manassas in August 1862. However, his effort ...

General Lee with his generals, 1907. Courtesy: Library of Congress Letter from Robert E. Lee to Winfield Scott, written two days after his meeting with Francis Blair where he refused command of ...

April 9, 1865. With his Confederate armies on their last legs, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Rebellion is over. After four years of fierce fighting ...

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 ...

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

Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... July 1862. Lee followed this with an offensive drive northward that culminated in victory at Second Manassas in August 1862. However, his effort ...