Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... pay his daughters their promised inheritances, and most of the 195 slaves—who had been promised their freedom in Custis' will— are ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child ... Lee was called upon to stop John Brown's attempted slave insurrection at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an ... but historian Eric Foner notes that Lee owned slaves and thought abolitionists were pursuing an “evil course.” In recent years, federal ...

Robert E. Lee that was once the focal point of the deadly ... “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves, and you know, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying ...

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...

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