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Hace 8 horas · Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in 1865, earning a ...
Hace 5 días · A hundred years ago, a bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee astride his horse Traveller was erected in what was then known as Lee Park in downtown Charlottesville, where it stood...
Hace 4 días · Two days of demonstrations were organized in part to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and was believed to be the largest gathering of white...
Hace 5 días · Arlington House claims special historical significance through its association with the Washington and Custis families, and particularly with Robert E. Lee. After his family’s departure in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War (1861–1865), Arlington House became a Union army facility.
Hace 4 días · Foundry workers adjust pieces of Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee atop a furnace to heat them in preparation for melting the statue on Oct. 21.
Hace 3 días · The trunks had been placed there by General Robert E. Lee’s daughter Mary many years ago for safe-keeping. The trunks contained approximately 4,000 Lee family letters, including one written by General Lee in November of 1862, after being informed that his daughter had died from the effects of Typhoid Fever.
Hace 4 días · CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Seven years after a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, a trial began Tuesday for one of about a dozen people charged with using flaming torches to intimidate counterprotesters. Prosecutors at the trial of Jacob Joseph Dix showed the jury graphic videos of 300 to 400 white ...
