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Robert E. Lee - Slavery, Racial Attitudes: Lee held views about slavery and abolitionists typical for those of his class and section. A member of the slaveholding aristocracy, he saw the peculiar institution as necessary to maintain order between the races and resented northerners who attacked the motives and character of slaveholders and seemed eager to disrupt white supremacy in the southern ...
Aug 18, 2017 · By Jacey Fortin. Aug. 18, 2017. One day in January, a few years before the Civil War, Robert E. Lee wrote to The New York Times, seeking a correction. The man who would become the top Confederate ...
Nov 8, 2017 · Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1838. PD. Robert Edward Lee is the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia ...
Robert E. Lee in the Mexican War. When the United States went to war with Mexico in 1846, Lee won laurels on the staff of Major General Winfield Scott, who commanded the American forces that invaded Veracruz and captured Mexico City. As an engineer, Lee helped Scott find ways around Mexican strongpoints or to capture them.
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.
Robert E. Lee - Confederate General, US Military, Virginia: Robert Edward Lee was the son of Henry (“Light-horse Harry”) Lee and Ann Hill Carter Lee. His father had been a hero of the American Revolution and governor of Virginia, and uncles and other relatives had signed the Declaration of Independence, served in Congress, and otherwise achieved notable reputations.
The specifics of Lee’s relationship with slavery are complicated. Robert E. Lee was born in 1807 at Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, Virginia. In 1811, at just three years old, Lee and his immediate family moved to a townhouse in Alexandria, Virginia. Throughout his early life, young Robert E. Lee would have had close association with ...
