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.

In a new biography, Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., treats Lee as a ... is the author or coauthor of 15 previous books and the editor of Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor.

said he sees Robert E. Lee Day as an irrelevant holiday, one that has been on the books for years but gets little acknowledgement. "History has a way of fixing itself," he said. "I'm not going to ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...

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.