No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

There once was a general who fought a war to protect slavery. That’s not how he would have described it. He would have said he was fighting to protect his way of life from a foreign invader.

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 ...

Trude Lamb said at a school board meeting she wanted to change the name of the school to be after "someone who we can all be proud of" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

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 ...

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 ...

Arlington House, located on a high hill within Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, is one of many national park sites along the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Built by George ...