In the late summer of 1865, 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 ...

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... and cites the Union's overwhelming numbers as the cause for surrender. April 15, 1865 Lee rejoins his family in Richmond, where Mary ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... By the beginning of April 1865, Grant's armies broke through what remained of the Confederate defenses, and Lee ...

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

America must take a look at the ongoing racial violence and the monuments we build in service or resistance to it.

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, against whom he had fought in ...

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...

Although the American Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the war ...