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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

President Trump may see the statues commemorating the Confederacy and Robert E. Lee as things of “beauty” that will be “greatly missed.” But Lee himself did not share the sentiment. To him ...

"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: ...

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

That name remained until 1903, when the leadership “re-named the church R.E. Lee Memorial, although no record can be found of reasons for this change or a debate over it,” read a parish news ...

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.

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 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 ...