The sword's hilt was made of ivory and gold, with a pommel shaped like a lion's head, but as the weary, gray-haired general walked ... It was presented to Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1863 — a tribute ...

“Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause” (St. Martin’s Press, 304 pgs., $27.99). Seidule, retired brigadier general, professor emeritus of history ...

His father, Henry Lee, had been a brilliant general in the Revolutionary War. As a young man, Robert E. Lee attended the ... he didn’t want to raise his sword against his fellow Virginians ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The sword Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had at his side when he surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has returned to Appomattox as the centerpiece of a just-opened ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The sword that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had at his side when he surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is returning to Appomattox as the centerpiece of a new museum ...

The portrait is of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, in uniform, sword unsheathed at his side. The presence and prominence of Lee’s portrait in a courthouse in Louisa County speak to the kinds of bias ...

Even in his last days, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, had already become a myth ... York City during draft riots in 1863. The "Lost Cause" mythology that Lee now embodies took ...

ROBERT E. LEE AND ME A Southerner’s Reckoning With the Myth of the Lost Cause By Ty Seidule 291 pp. St. Martin’s. $27.99. Image Long before the alt-right circled the statue of the Confederate ...