having been this day surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, CSA, Commanding said Army, to Lieut. Genl. U. S. Grant, Commanding Armies of United States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... A week later, he surrendered what remained of his army to Grant at Appomattox Court House. After the war, Lee ...

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

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... A few weeks after becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April ...

“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an anonymous ... fighting to maintain slavery in the South until his surrender to the Union in 1865. The general’s personal opinions on race ...

When Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate flag at Appomattox 150 years ago, the Civil War did not truly end. It smoldered for generations, like a low-grade fever, sometimes flaring in ...

Mark Twain published Grant’s memoirs. It was finished just days before his death to cancer July 1885. “The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant” published in 1886 is a literary masterpiece. Grant’s widow ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...

Although the American Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the ...