Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

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 ...

A valuable read for anyone interested in the war in the East and, of course, Robert E. Lee, From Arlington to Appomattox is highly recommended.

Outside Appomattox Court House, the half-starved tatterdemalions of Robert E. Lee’s Army of ... Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last months. In January, Congress ratified the ...

Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day on Monday, April 28 this year. Only four states still honor the Civil War dead with a day off for public workers, though others still treat it as a ...

The two commanders sat across from each other; Lee in a tall caned armchair and ... fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America ...

In the popular imagination, the Civil War usually ends with the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. True, most of the large-scale killing ended at ...

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Mississippi also celebrates Robert E. Lee Day on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day soon. Only four states still honor the Civil War ...

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