General Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for much of the American Civil War. After refusing command of Union forces, Lee pledged to serve the Confederacy and took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring of 1862. Robert E. Lee led his forces in two unsuccessful invasions of the North but gained a reputation for tactical genius, defeating Union armies in several engagements. After the war, Robert E. Lee served as president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, and died in 1870 at the age of 63. The school was later renamed Washington & Lee University.
Robert E. Lee
Although Union Colonel Silas Colgrove had previously led his men through some of the most horrific fighting in the eastern theater of the Civil War, the order he received on the morning of July 3, 1863, in the woods near Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg, was the most unnerving he had ever received. Read more
Robert E. Lee
Prior to the American Civil War, Nathan Bedford Forrest amassed a fortune in real estate, agriculture, and the slave trade. Read more
Robert E. Lee
It was nearly 11 on the morning of September 20, 1863, and the woods around slow-moving Chickamauga Creek in northwest Georgia were ominously quiet. Read more
