Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...

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

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 ...

On orders from generals Robert E. Lee and ... when the Civil War effectively came to an end, and, though dramatically remade, the nation would be preserved. Reconciliation after the war would ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered his army two years later in Virginia. In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War ... Decades after the war ended, according ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...