President Trump announced Tuesday that he will restore the names of Fort Robert E. Lee and six other military bases honoring ...

In the month of May, two key anniversaries that spurred the Civil War into motion occurred between the United States and Mexico over a conflict that centered on Texas. The Mexican-American War ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee ... ranks and graduated second in the class of 1829. Lee first saw battle in the Mexican War, fought in 1846-48. He served as captain under General ...

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant ... the children and remains engaged in their growth. As the Mexican-American war develops, Lee is called upon to lend his engineering skills ...

Robert E. Lee still holds a distinct place in the history of the South -- a history that will be revisited many times in 2011, as the nation marks 150 years since the Civil War began. That bloody ...

As a young man, Robert E. Lee attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated with honors. Lee fought for the first time in 1846, when the Mexican War broke out.

either during the Mexican War or the Indian Wars. Judge Bob Perkins has made a thorough search through Carl Coke Rister‘s authoritative 1946 “Robert E. Lee in Texas” (University of ...

To the editor: Most Southerners and many Northerners consider Robert E. Lee to be one of the outstanding figures of the Civil War period. It may then come as a surprise to learn that Lee opposed ...

Robert E. Lee did write his name on the envelope. Do these have any value other than historical? — M.K.F., Grovetown, Ga. Dear M.K.F.: A handwritten letter signed by Civil War Gen. Robert Edward ...

Lee’s life after the Civil War. The Atlanta History Center hosted this virtual program. Allen Guelzo talked about Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s life after the Civil War. The Atlanta ...