Lee, Robert E. (1807–70)

Civil War General

Robert E. Lee exemplified the best in the first generation of Army officers trained at the U.S. Military Academy during and after the reforms of the school's superintendent, Sylvanus Thayer. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he ...

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