A second time capsule recently found buried beneath the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened Tuesday.. Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly ...

On the morning of this day in 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee said: “It would be useless and therefore cruel to provoke the further effusion of blood, and I have arranged to meet with Gen. Grant with a ...

Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of the South's "Lost Cause" — and eventually a racist icon.

Robert E. Lee graduates second in his class from West Point. ... Fall 1865 The Lee family moves to Lexington, Virginia, where Lee assumes the role of President of Washington College.

Lee became president of the school in 1865. ... But Robert E. Lee joined the rebellion, ultimately choosing the state of Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union.

Robert E. Lee, 1865 Mathew B. Brady, National Portrait Gallery [/] Robert ... Here, the rough and tumble Ulysses S. Grant from Ohio faces off with the southern patrician Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. ... While the United States may have defeated the Confederacy and forced its surrender in 1865, ...

Appraisal: 1865 Copy of General Robert E. Lee's Order No. 9, in Harrisburg Hour 2.

A second time capsule recently found buried beneath the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened Tuesday.. Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly ...

Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of the South’s “Lost Cause” — and eventually a racist icon. His transformation, at the ...