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This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He’d Already Had His Share of Surprises
Arthur Fremantle stumbled upon a murder while in the Rio Grande.
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A Union Rebel Inside Robert E. Lee’s Family
Col. Louis H. Marshall stayed true to the Stars and Stripes and forever became an outcast to his family.
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Robert E. Lee Endured a Precipitous Reset in Maryland
Though the Lost Orders forced the Confederate commander to fight on unfavorable ground at Sharpsburg, he survived the bloody clash with his army intact.
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West Point Expected to Take Down Robert E. Lee Portrait
It would be a remarkable move at an institution where Lee has been revered as a military figure for generations.
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How Volunteer Soldiers Blocked Robert E. Lee—By Burning the World’s Longest Covered Bridge
A brief but sharp skirmish at Wrightsville marked the easternmost Confederate advance in Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign.
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Book Review: Robert E. Lee / A Biography
Allen Guelzo provides an updated biography of the heralded if controversial Confederate commander of the American Civil War
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What If Robert E. Lee Had Sent Troops to Vicksburg?
Why exactly was Robert E. Lee so opposed to sending help to Mississippi in 1863?
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Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue—Nation’s Largest Remaining Confederate Tribute—To Be Removed
“The statue was installed in 1890, a generation after the Civil War, during the historical movement that sought to undo the results by other means”
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Orton Williams, an old suitor to Robert E. Lee’s daughter Agnes
Early in the Civil War, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, then still the general-in-chief of […]