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 ...

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.

Courtesy: Historical Society of Frederick County, MD Originally called the Confederate Army of the Potomac, the confederate forces were renamed the Army of Northern Virginia when Robert E.