Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee often concluded orders to his generals with polite phrases easily misinterpreted as escape clauses. On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, he ordered Lt.

In Episcopal churches directly associated with Robert E ... Lee University next door wrote a letter to the rector, the Rev. Tom Crittenden, and the senior and junior wardens calling for a “frank ...

CLINTON -- Frank Everett White Jr. is trying to correct history. Three days before Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War, his son George Washington Custis Lee was ...

There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House, the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop ... laws that would restrict frank discussions of race.

"Robert E. Lee ultimately signs a deed to free 40 people that were enslaved here, and Charles Syphax is one of those," he said. Hammond said that the stories are very complex and that he thinks ...