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 ...

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 ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... been a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War. Henry Lee had also served as governor of Virginia.

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

On orders from generals Robert E. Lee and John Gordon ... when they learned of the outcome at Appomattox. With Lee’s surrender, the war effectively came to an end. On April 9, 1865, a lone ...

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Douglas S. Freeman, R. E. Lee: A Biography, Volume II (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935), pp. 409–10. 2. Edward Porter Alexander, ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...