It's a story Steve Hammond and his family have spent years unraveling. Hammond learned that General Lee freed his relative, Charles Syphax, and dozens of other enslaved people. "Robert E.

There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House, the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop ... "And then your story is your story. But what your ancestors did ...

Robert E. Lee V is the great-great-grandson ... John Kowalik [head of Potomac School] was telling me a story a few weeks ago that I had forgotten. When General Lee became president of Washington ...

2021): Subsequent to the publishing and airing of this story, the genealogical history of Robert Lee has been questioned. It's unclear whether he is a descendent of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The Lee family of Alabama (not related to Robert E. Lee) In tracing the lineage of Rob Lee’s family, we need to start our story with William Lee of Alabama. He has no apparent relationship to ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's great-great grandson condemned last weekend's deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va. as "sad" and "senseless" and suggesting that it would be "appropriate" to move ...

By David Goldfield ROBERT E. LEE A Life By Allen C. Guelzo The historian Allen C. Guelzo is a self-described Yankee partisan. In a dozen books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, he has portrayed ...

Robert E. Lee often ... While Lee loyalists portray him as a reluctant and even benevolent slave owner, Korda notes that history hasn't given us his slaves' side of the story.

Guelzo is acutely aware of how perceptions change over time. When he started his latest biography, “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” back in 2014, “Lee was a different person,” he says.