The re-enactment will commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Army in 1865. Dr. Fields ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... been a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War. Henry Lee had also served as governor of Virginia.

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 ...

Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee was hated during the American civil war only to become a heroic symbol of the South’s “Lost Cause” - and eventually a racist icon. His transformation ...

Read full article: DCPS decides to rename Riverside High football stadium to honor former coach, teacher The Duval County School Board decided to rename the Riverside High School football stadium ...

Using innovative cartographic tools, she has cast fresh light on hoary historical debates—What was Robert E. Lee thinking at Gettysburg ... squads during World War II. Knowles’ research ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday on the last Monday of April. Only four states, including Mississippi, designate Confederate Memorial Day as a paid holiday for ...

General Robert E. Lee must have foreseen the divisiveness that ... “I think it is wiser not to keep open the sores of war, but follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate ...

Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier at ...