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 ...

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 ...

Built by George Washington Parke Custis between 1802 and 1818 to serve as a memorial to his step-grandfather, George Washington, the house is now associated more with the man who married into the ...

Visitorship at Civil War ... s the Robert E. Lee equestrian statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond. That memorial was conceived in 1870 and not, as many other Confederate statues were, during ...

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 ...