Robert E. Lee Memorial Association ... He and his second wife, Ann Hill Carter Lee, and their children departed the Lee ancestral home, where Robert was born, for a smaller rented house in ...

The childhood home of Robert E. Lee in Alexandria, Virginia. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anne moves her children into a small house in Alexandria after Henry is no longer able to afford the Lee ...

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 ...