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 ...
having been this day surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, CSA, Commanding said Army, to Lieut. Genl. U. S. Grant, Commanding Armies of United States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor ...
Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... A week later, he surrendered what remained of his army to Grant at Appomattox Court House. After the war, Lee ...
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.
When Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate flag at Appomattox 150 years ago, the Civil War did not truly end. It smoldered for generations, like a low-grade fever, sometimes flaring in ...
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 ...