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 ...

In a new biography, Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount ... Two years later one of Lee’s ex-generals, Jubal A. Early, apotheosized his late commander as follows: “Our beloved Chief stands, like some ...

Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all ... confederate battle flag in the world featured prominently in early yearbooks from the school. Student organizations dressed in replica ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the ... Virginia. It took Lee only an hour to put an end to Brown's raid. Such early successes made Lee a leading candidate to command ...

When it comes to controversial figures such as Robert E. Lee ... live an honorable life, “thereby developing their character.” “As a general principle,” Lee said, “you should not ...

David King, commander of the Jubal A Early Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Hillsborough County, said his members have no plans to recognize Robert E. Lee Day. They never do.