On April 9, Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered Beauregard to attack ... General Robert E. Lee is appointed commander of the Confederate Army of ...
By mid-summer 1862, President Abraham Lincoln had the
order with regard to slavery, and in September President Lincoln demanded Frémont to do so.
On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the
One might be surprised to learn that both the Lincoln Memorial and Charlottesville's monument to Robert E. Lee went up about 60 years after the ...
March 4, 1861- Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the ... an executive order that freed every slave in the Confederate States.
In this order issued on November 5, 1862, one day after the congressional mid- term elections, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln relieved Union ...
A face is carved in the back of Abraham Lincoln's head.
disappointment in Meade's inability to pursue and destroy Robert E. Lee's army.
In 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia;