Although Lee's father is active in Virginia politics ... one of the best schools in the country. Robert E. Lee graduates second in his class from West Point. While at the military academy ...

Henry Lee had also served as governor of Virginia ... to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. There, he quickly rose in ...

Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...

West Point graduate Robert E. Lee of Virginia was such a celebrated warrior during the U.S.-Mexico War that his former mentor, Gen. Winfield Scott, asked him to lead Union forces against the South ...

Arlington House, located on a high hill within Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, is one of many national park ... and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee.