Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... but even so Antietam becomes the bloodiest single day of combat in the war. 2,108 Union soldiers die; Lee's army loses 1,546 men.

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.

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...