Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth ... what remained of the Confederate defenses, and Lee evacuated Richmond and Petersburg on the evening of April 2.

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... Union General George McClellan's forces come within four miles of Richmond, the capitol of the Confederacy. Richmond civilians make plans ...

Maybe it’s the Robert E. Lee equestrian statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond. That memorial was conceived in 1870 and not, as many other Confederate statues were, during the reassertion of ...

I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where the legacy of Robert E. Lee loomed large. Well before I learned Civil War history, I was taught that Lee was a good Christian and a southern gentleman. At family ...

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

The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - JULY 10: Workers remove a statue of ...

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 ...