Come see the Civil War as Robert E. Lee saw it. Ken Burns’ public television series on the conflict, the movie “Gettysburg” and the historical novels of Michael and Jeff Shaara ha… ...

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, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...

Workers began dismantling the Robert E ... Age. Lee’s war record points to a commitment to white supremacy as slavery began to unravel by 1863. To mark the centennial of Lee’s birth in ...