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 ...

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 ...