Although Lee's father is active in Virginia politics ... one of the best schools in the country. Robert E. Lee graduates second in his class from West Point. While at the military academy ...

Henry Lee had also served as governor of Virginia ... to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. There, he quickly rose in ...

Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...

West Point graduate Robert E. Lee of Virginia was such a celebrated warrior during the U.S.-Mexico War that his former mentor, Gen. Winfield Scott, asked him to lead Union forces against the South ...

Robert E. Lee. Jr., in Frank ... The 1st of September, 1832, Col. Lee was appointed Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. My memory as to our move from Baltimore ...

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

A statue of Lee commemorates Virginia’s losses and overlooks the field where General George Pickett undertook his doomed charge. If you can’t honor Robert E. Lee there, you can’t honor him ...

A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond is expected to be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in tribute to ...