General Robert E. Lee with his staff Mathew B. Brady, National Portrait Gallery Robert E. Lee, 1876 A. Hoen Lithography Company, National Portrait Gallery Ulysses S. Grant, 1864 Mathew B. Brady ...

The names Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are connected through their Civil War bond and the historic surrender, 151 years ago today, at Appomattox Court House.

Want to listen to this article out loud? Hear it on Slate Voice.. By contrast, Robert E. Lee didn’t have Grant’s long career in public life. He died in 1870, just a few years after the war.

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

President Trump today tried to justify his defense of the 2017 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville by invoking the memory of Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. The demonstrators, argued ...

Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee and the theological virtue of hope Terrance Klein July 20, 2022 General Lee's farewell to his soldiers as depicted by Henry D. Northrop.

Fields says that Grant’s fight at war’s end with Robert E. Lee unjustly overshadows his earlier achievements in the Western theater, naming battles at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson are ...

“So Robert E. Lee was a great general and Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia,” Trump began, referencing the Confederate general who won many of the early battles against Lincoln's Union army ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.