Crews work on Sept. 8 to remove a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond. (Steve Helber/AP) In 1935, the year before Margaret Mitchell’s magnolia-scented novel “Gone ...

As a historian, Allen C. Guelzo is acutely aware of how perceptions change over time. When he started his latest biography, “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” back in 2014, “Lee was a different person ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's ...

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 ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee often concluded orders to his generals with polite phrases easily misinterpreted as escape clauses. On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, he ordered Lt. Gen ...

Last year, a group of African-American college students urged their university's administration to denounce Robert E. Lee for his "racist and dishonorable conduct," and for his participation in ...

There’s been much controversy in Charlottesville and beyond about preserving monuments to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. But if you had a chance to ask him, he’d most likely say, no thanks.

To Thomas, who wrote "Robert E. Lee: A Biography", published in 1995, historical evidence shows Lee was a man who lived by a strict moral code, a sense of honor and duty; a great soldier and ...

Guelzo calculates that Lee may have had as many as four heart attacks before the one that caused his death on Oct. 12, 1870. Robert E. Lee opposed erecting statues to himself and his brothers-in-arms.

In a new biography, Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., treats Lee as a man of competing impulses, a “paragon of manliness” and “one of the greatest military commanders in history,” who was ...

For Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee, then commanding the 2nd United States Cavalry Regiment at Fort Mason, Texas, the immediate challenge was to lead, and to carefully manage, a mass of officers ...