The two commanders sat across from each other; Lee in a tall caned armchair and ... fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

While Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant led their respective armies, the generals serving under them directed the numerous battles that comprised the Civil War, which were divided among ...

The re-enactment will commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Army in 1865. Dr. Fields ...

Lee surrendered to Gen ... As Texas’ economy had been less impacted by the Civil War, many Confederate generals flocked to the state following the end of the conflict. These southerners ...

I am the great-great-great-great niece of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. My maternal grandmother ... expression coined during post-Civil War political campaigns to criticize or shame ...

Other Confederate generals, such as Gen ... It’s a common misconception that the Civil War ended when Gen. Robert E Lee surrendered his troops at Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1865.