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 ...

In the archives of a gentleman's club in this rural town is what is believed to be a signed copy of one of the most famous documents in the history of the Civil War. April 9, 1865. With 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 ...

The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865, and was a brutal conflict that threatened to tear the country apart. While the Union ultimately prevailed over the Confederacy, the lasting ...

Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last ... Confederate General Richard Taylor, the son of President Zachary Taylor, returned to New Orleans to discover that his sugar plantation had ...

Lee, as he tells the general’s story on a daily basis. This is not an analytical biography, however, but concentrates on what Lee did, where he was, whom he wrote to or met with, and even what he ate.