Many historians consider the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Facing a Union Army more than twice the size of his own, Lee divided his ...

On July 1, 1863, Union and Confederate troops clashed at the Battle of Gettysburg in what proved to be Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s his final effort to move decisively from Virginia into the ...

Battle of Gettysburg: Day 1 01:40. Key locations: Cemetery Hill, Cashtown Pike, Herr Ridge, McPherson Ridge, Seminary Ridge. Key figures: Robert E. Lee, George Meade ...

Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of the South's "Lost Cause" — and eventually a racist icon.

Robert E. Lee Statue Sparks New Antietam Battle Vince Pearson reports on the latest battle for Antietam. The Civil War battlefield is at the center of a debate over whether a man who owns property ...

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a nephew many generations removed of Robert E. Lee, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why the statue of the Confederate general in Charlottesville must come down.

Trump characterizes Robert E. Lee as a unifier and premier war strategist. Here’s what history shows ... Like Lee at the Appomattox Court House in 1865, they lost the battle and the war.

Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from its pedestal on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. The 12-ton statue has towered over Monument Avenue since 1890.

The soldier. A son of American Revolutionary War hero Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class at West Point and distinguished himself in various battles ...