Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

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 ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's father, also known as "Light-Horse Harry," had been a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War.

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 ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three ... commanded by Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army ...