Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee ... ranks and graduated second in the class of 1829. Lee first saw battle in the Mexican War, fought in 1846-48. He served as captain under General ...

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant ... the children and remains engaged in their growth. As the Mexican-American war develops, Lee is called upon to lend his engineering skills ...

West Point graduate Robert E. Lee of Virginia was such a celebrated warrior during the U.S.-Mexico War that his former mentor, Gen. Winfield Scott, asked him to lead Union forces against the South ...