Robert E. Lee

After the South was defeated and General Lee surrendered, he signed this amnesty oath
promising to uphold the Constitution of the United States. In the oath, Lee expresses his support for the laws and proclamations of the Constitution and specifically refers to his support for laws regarding…

In this letter written by General Robert E. Lee on October 18th, 1859, he demands that John Brown and his forces surrender from the armory buildings at Harper's Ferry, VA. He stated that he would take the buildings with force if necessary. The federal troops eventually took back the buildings…

<p><span class="deck"> Upon the clash of arms near a little Maryland creek hung the slave’s freedom and the survival of the Union</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The Corps is supposed to be tough, and is. This often confounds its enemies and sometimes irritates the nation’s other services</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Verdicts Of History: III -- Even his abolitionist friends thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but the old Kansas raider sensed that his death would ignite the nation’s conscience.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Conjectural or speculative history can be a silly game, as in “What if the Roman legions had machine guns?” But this historian argues that to enlarge our knowledge and understanding it sometimes makes very good sense to ask …</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the republic’s direst hour, he took command. In the black days after Bull Run, he won West Virginia for the Union. He raised a magnificent army and led it forth to meet his “cautious &amp; weak” opponent, Robert E. Lee. Why hasn’t history been kinder to George B. McClellan?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">During three days in May 1863, the Confederate leader took astonishing risks to win one of the most skillfully conducted battles in history. But the cost turned out to be too steep.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The general’s favorite horse</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How to know the unknowable man</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He told President Lincoln that he was better than any other officer on the field at Bull Run, and he got the Army’s top job. He built a beaten force into a proud one, and stole a march on Robert E. Lee with it. He was 24 hours away from winning the Civil War. Then, he fell apart.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Union Army’s siege ended in 1865, but it still has a grip on Petersburg, Virginia.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He was forever asking friends to find a spouse for his youngest boy. It was a different story with his girls.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of Lee’s greatest lieutenants is slowly winning his reputation back after losing it for daring to criticize his boss.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A Lee descendant finds two long-lost trunks full of family memorabilia in a Virginia bank vault.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">New research shows that Lee's momentous decision to fight for the South was far from inevitable.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A southern writer analyzes the handicaps unwittingly laid on the general by President Davis</span> </p>

<p>In only minutes, Union guns at Gettysburg silenced the Confederacy's bold invasion of the North.</p>

<p>In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence.</p>

<p>A largely accidental battle, pitting Robert E. Lee against George B. McClellan, became the single deadliest day in America's history and changed the course of the Civil War.</p>

<p>In the bitter debate over the War of 1812, the decorated veteran nearly died fighting a Baltimore mob in defense of an unpopular Federalist publisher.</p>

<p>In September 1862, the South hoped to end the war by invading Maryland just before the mid-term elections. But its hopes were dashed after the bloodiest day in American history.</p>