Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... and cites the Union's overwhelming numbers as the cause for surrender. April 15, 1865 Lee rejoins his family in Richmond, where Mary ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... By the beginning of April 1865, Grant's armies broke through what remained of the Confederate defenses, and Lee ...

For me, a line was crossed this week when the faculty at Washington & Lee University voted to demand the school drop the second half of its name to erase its affiliation with Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, against whom he had fought in ...

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 ...