Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

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 welcome letter.

“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an anonymous ... fighting to maintain slavery in the South until his surrender to the Union in 1865. The general’s personal opinions on race ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... A few weeks after becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April ...

One of the most well-known stories of the Civil War is when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9, 1865. The tale goes that when Lee surrendered ...

I feared one unelected agency after another would wear down this aesthetic belligerent to a stalemate, if not gassing him into unconditional surrender ... equestrian statue in Charlottesville of ...

When the fort fell on Jan. 15, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender within 90 days as supplies dwindled. With the war over, a once-thriving tent city of enslaved workers became a ghost ...

Fewer than 50 students were enrolled in 1865, when the college awarded only one degree. On Aug. 4, 1865, four months after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, the Washington ...