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 ...

Visitorship at Civil War battlefields has dwindled to ... “I do not understand how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be emulated,” the general responded eloquently.

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Lee County is named after Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general in the American Civil War who eventually commanded all Confederate armies. The name came at the urging of retired Confederate Capt.

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael Vorenberg ... Lincoln lived to see the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia but knew there was ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast ... Stained-glass windows depicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were removed in 2017. Now, Kerry James Marshall is working on their replacements.

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil ... Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war.