Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E ... Civil War shape up more as bloody muddles than as commanders’ chess games. For a long time during ...

Lee. Knight writes very well, and does a great job of using the words of the participants to help us better understand Lee’s day-to-day activities, and makes good use of the many images and maps. A ...

“It would be useless and therefore cruel,” Robert E. Lee remarked on the morning of ... hastened the conclusion of the Civil War.