Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... and moves on to his greatest engineering challenge, "moving" the Mississippi River. The Mississippi had been drifting away from the St ...

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...

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 ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...

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 ...