The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

The descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

Sarah Fleming, a Lee family descendant, said, “My fourth great grandfather, Richard Bland Lee, was Robert E. Lee’s uncle. I grew up knowing slavery was abhorrent and hearing of the pride my ...

Family members of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee and descendants of people the Lee family enslaved will meet on the very same land their ancestors lived and worked on in a reconciliatory event ...

For Father’s Day, we begin a few stories about Archibald Stuart, the father of J. E. B. Stuart and the owner of the Laurel ...

The celebration, called “Finding Our Voice,” drew a crowd of about 100 people. Stephen Hammond, the organizer and the descendent of a Lee family slave, said this has been a lifelong goal of his.

Robert E. Lee. 1807–70 Virginia Confederate General. ... President of Washington College after the war, he lost his family home, Arlington, now the nation’s largest military cemetery.

Many assume Lee’s Summit was named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, ... In 1857, he and his family moved to Harrisonville but still found themselves frequent targets of pro-Union forces.

Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee.