Hammond learned that General Lee freed his relative, Charles Syphax, and dozens of other enslaved people. "Robert E. Lee ultimately signs a deed to free 40 people that were enslaved here ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Allen Guelzo talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s perspectives regarding slavery. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual ...

His father, Henry Lee, had been a brilliant general in the Revolutionary War. As a young man, Robert E. Lee attended the United ... and remember freedom is not free.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Allen Guelzo talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s life after the Civil War. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual program.

Indeed, Lee possessed such outstanding qualities that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote "General Robert E. Lee was ... criminals with a get out of jail free card. This has been a real roadblock ...

Even in his last days, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, had already become a myth ... In 1862, he would free his father-in-law's slaves, as required by the man's will, a matter of ...

Lee. The demonstrators, argued the president, doubling down, were indeed “very fine people” because they “felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general.” ...

The massive bronze sculpture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in uniform, astride his horse Traveller, stood in a downtown Charlottesville park for nearly a century. It was at the center of a ...