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 ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Critics on social media expressed disbelief over the Trump administration's latest attack on diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...

Relative of Robert E. Lee prefers bio over battles Thomas Lee ... That education and years of army experience would affect the course of the Civil War. “He could look at terrain with the eye ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

I saw a pundit on Twitter, otherwise a pretty conservative guy, say recently: “Robert E. Lee literally had the privilege of choosing which army he wanted to lead in the Civil War. He chose wrong.” ...