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.

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.

Sunday, April 9th, marks the 158th Anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses ...

Some of the items removed include portraits of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in Confederate uniform, stone busts of Lee and Grant, and a bronze triptych, West Point’s Superintendent ...

Fields says that Grant’s fight at war’s end with Robert E. Lee unjustly overshadows his earlier achievements in the Western theater, naming battles at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson are ...

There is nowhere like Appomattox, this is actually where Robert E. Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, and that signaled the end of the Civil War," Wilk said.

NEW YORK — Before turning against the U.S. military to command the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee served as the superintendent of West Point, the hallowed military academy that produced ...

West Point over its holiday break will remove a portrait of Robert E. Lee in Confederate uniform as well as a bust of the general from prominent spots on campus, carrying out directives that were ...

Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier. The holiday spread to the other 10 Confederate states, with some changing it to locally important dates.

ST. LOUIS — Former president, Civil War hero and one-time Missouri resident Ulysses S. Grant added another honor to his name last week. Grant was conferred the rank of General of the Armies of ...

Grant became the nation’s first four-star general in 1866, a year after Robert E. Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War.