“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an anonymous ... fighting to maintain slavery in the South until his surrender to the Union in 1865. The general’s personal opinions on race ...

a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but surely welcome letter.

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... A few weeks after becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April ...

Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in April 1865 is Continue reading » Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You About Parenting in Community, Raising ...

Accept Defeat: In the closing days of the Civil War, as Gen. Robert E. Lee prepared to surrender his army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled from Richmond, vowing to ...

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered, effectively ending the war. He is remembered as the Great Emancipator, though he initially wavered on the ...

Under a new policy enacted in Florida last fall, prison officials forced transgender women to cut their hair, surrender their ... Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ...