Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... Lee surrenders to General Grant. Lee keeps his emotions under control as he signs a surrender document in Wilmer McLean's parlor inside ...

Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia ... known as the Jim Crow laws were adopted. The Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, went up in 1924. A year later, the US Congress ...

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 Memorial Association ... a sort of precursorcross between Cary Grant and Randolph Scott. He was in his element gossiping with belles about their beaux at balls.

The war ended in spring 1865; Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9 at ...

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.