(robert edward)

Text and photographs present the biography of the general who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Chronicles the end of the Civil War focusing on the surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomattox and on the terms of surrender that helped America begin to heal.

Traces the life, career, and achievements of the general who commanded the Confederate army during the Civil War.

Presents a biography of Robert E. Lee, General of the Confederate army in the American Civil War, from his earliest childhood experinces--poverty, and the death of his father--to his education at West Point Military Academy, his military career, and his service to the Confederacy.

From Bull Run to the fall of Richmond, from Shiloh to Sherman's march through Georgia, explores the military careers and private lives of Grant and Lee. Also portrays the bloodiest and most wrenching episodes in American history.

Text and illustrations chronicle the life of Confederate general Robert E. Lee; also includes a glossary, a Lee chronology, a Civil War time line, and a bibliography.

Interweaves the lives of these two historical figures in their early years before the Civil War, in their roles as determined adversaries, and in their later lives when they continued to be involved in their nation's fate.

Recounts the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in April of 1865 from the perspective of eleven-year-old Willie McLean, who may have witnessed the event.

Born in 1807, Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class at West Point, served in the Mexican War, commanded the Confederate Army, and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia.