General Robert E. Lee with his staff Mathew B. Brady, National Portrait Gallery Robert E. Lee, 1876 A. Hoen Lithography Company, National Portrait Gallery Ulysses S. Grant, 1864 Mathew B. Brady ...

The names Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are connected through their Civil War bond and the historic surrender, 151 years ago today, at Appomattox Court House.

Want to listen to this article out loud? Hear it on Slate Voice.. By contrast, Robert E. Lee didn’t have Grant’s long career in public life. He died in 1870, just a few years after the war.

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.

The conventional wisdom concerning the comparative generalship of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant was established almost immediately after the Civil War. Despite his role as, in the words of ...

Historian and author William Davis talked about the different upbringings of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and how their childhoods impacted their later lives. Mr. Davis argues that Grant's ...

President Trump today tried to justify his defense of the 2017 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville by invoking the memory of Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. The demonstrators, argued ...

It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump’s remark,” the network said in the posting.

Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee and the theological virtue of hope Terrance Klein July 20, 2022 General Lee's farewell to his soldiers as depicted by Henry D. Northrop.

President Trump on Sunday accused the media of “purposely” changing the meaning of his comments on Robert E. Lee.In a tweet, Trump claimed that his comments about the Confederate general were ...

Look, I drank whiskey, I liked whiskey, I still like whiskey… and I beat Robert E. Lee. — Ulysses S. Grant (@POTUS_UG) October 13, 2018. In this article: Donald Trump, Politics, Robert E. Lee, ...