Without the money to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. There, he quickly rose in the ranks and graduated second in the ...

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E ... decided to embrace R. E. Lee as a national as well as a Southern hero, he was generally described ...

Without the money to attend a university, young Robert E. Lee instead entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. There, he quickly rose in the ranks and graduated second in the ...