The Civil War, as Mercy Street demonstrates ... Images like his "Harvest of Death" after Gettysburg, the scene of Lee's defeat in 1863, described by Gardner simply as "devilish!" ...

Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

In 30 days, the two armies lose more men than both sides have lost in three years of war. With Grant and Lee finally deadlocked at Petersburg, we visit the ghastly hospitals north and south and ...

Lee commanded the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, fighting to maintain slavery ... have been contested and distorted since his death, but historian Eric Foner notes that Lee owned ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians ... bill would have moved the Lee holiday to Columbus Day in October, which coincides with the month of his death. Neither bill made it to ...