The wounds, which damaged his heart and lung, resulted in Lee's death at 6.49 a.m. on April 4, according to the report released by the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops celebrating Lee, a Confederate who chose treason and human bondage over country.

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1838. PD. Robert Edward Lee is the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general ... which coincides with the month of his death. Neither bill made it to a floor vote. In ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... The length of time flags should be at half-staff after the death of a former president was set in 1954. Private companies and citizens ...

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 ...