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 ...

Visitorship at Civil War battlefields has dwindled to ... “I do not understand how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be emulated,” the general responded eloquently.

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

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 ...

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

Sep 15, 2017 Sep 15, 2017 Updated May 15, 2018 When Aubrey Burge moved to Tyler for college six years ago, she was surprised to find the town was home to a school named after a Confederate general ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

As a teenager, he was an apprentice to the Irish American photographer, Matthew Brady. His photographs captured the raw and haunting realities of the war ... Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate ...