Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... foray as a field commander in western Virginia in 1861, Lee supervised the preparation of coastal defenses along ...

Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association ... in history as too fine for the bloodbath of 1861-65. To efface the squalor and horror of ...

Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee was hated during the American civil war only to become a heroic symbol of the South’s “Lost Cause” - and eventually a racist icon. His transformation ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. The war ...

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

Two U.S. states honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Do ...

When it comes to controversial figures such as Robert E. Lee, university presidents ... it will be impossible for Washington and Lee to preserve General Lee’s vaunted status as a demigod of ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... foray as a field commander in western Virginia in 1861, Lee supervised the preparation of coastal defenses along ...