Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...

Gen. Robert E. Lee, leader of Confederate troops in the U.S. Civil War, is shown, date unknown. Credit: AP/Uncredited King first rose to prominence in the 1950s as the leader of the boycott ...

Robert E. Lee at ... post in Texas, Lee writes home to his son Custis that the secession will lead to war. Confederate forces attack Fort Sumter in South Carolina to ignite the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... June 3 is when Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead from the Civil War, and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day.