Robert E. Lee Memorial Association ... as in a letter from the front to his invalid wife: “You must endeavour to enjoy the pleasure of doing good. That is all that makes life valuable.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

She traces this passion to family trips she took as a girl in the 1960s, when her father would pile his wife and four ... historical debates—What was Robert E. Lee thinking at Gettysburg?— ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly a century and a half after his death, Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines ...