Grant’s portrayer said Lincoln knew as well as he did that “the blood was going to be ankle deep before it was over.” That Lee’s hair was so near a match to his gray uniform seemed no ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

Robert E. Lee spent the first days of April 1865 dodging and weaving across southern Virginia in an effort to stave off the relentless pursuit of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, whose Union army outmanned ...