Robert E. Lee embodies the tragedy of the American South: he was the best military man in America — remember that Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army — and wanted to keep the Union ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's great-great grandson condemned last weekend's deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va. as "sad" and "senseless" and suggesting that it would be "appropriate" to move ...

Former President Donald Trump ripped removal of a massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, warning that “our culture is being destroyed and our history an… ...

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 ...

During Robert E. Lee’s 100 th birthday in 1907, ... The church bells rang as the sad news passed through Washington College, Virginia Military Institute and the town of Lexington.

Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our ... The Making of Robert E. Lee. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced the removal of monuments to Confederate figures as “sad” and “so foolish,” days after white supremacists and neo-Nazis took to Charlottesville ...

President Donald Trump said that General Robert E. Lee was a "great general" and said Union General Ulysses S. Grant drank too much.

The Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, has been reclaimed with Black Lives Matter art and messages since the death of George Floyd. Images of historic Black activists and thinkers have ...

"We made a sad mistake in the beginning of this campaign, which may yet prove fatal to us. ... Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee, taken from a speech given by B.H. Hill in August 1874: ...

A descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee said that President Donald Trump’s comments about his ancestor were “far from the truth” in a video Saturday. Rev. Robert Lee IV, who is the ...

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.