On this day in 1861, Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the U.S. Army when his native Virginia succeeded from the Union. During the ensuing Civil War, Lee initially served as a senior ...

Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...

Was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee actually against slavery? Did he personally whip an enslaved woman? Let's take a look at what you may not have learned in school.

Robert E. Lee V is the great-great-grandson of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The D.C. resident is also the longtime boys’ athletic director at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., which my children attend ...

The San Antonio Housing Trust Foundation's bid for the Robert E. Lee Apartments was accepted last month after tenants in the ...

Robert E. Lee, 1861 Charles G. Crehen, National Portrait Gallery [/] ... Here, the rough and tumble Ulysses S. Grant from Ohio faces off with the southern patrician Robert E. Lee.

In 1861, when Lee chose to resign from the U.S. Army, ... The Confederacy, and its leader Robert E. Lee, fought to maintain a society built on racial slavery. Related. Opinion.

Robert E. Lee Jr., the third son and ... in 1861 for $200. From this date on Lee would always be seen on battlefield or among his troops on the back of the 16 hand, 1,100 pound horse.

Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Robert E. Lee was a conflicted man when he stood before the Virginia House of Delegates in 1861 to accept command of the state's military forces. Exactly 150 years later, historian Gary Gallagher ...

On July 31, 1861, exactly 150 years ago Sunday, the Richmond Examiner reported that Gen. Robert E. Lee, who at that time was serving as a confidential military adviser to President Jefferson Davis ...