Robert E. Lee
Published: 3/18/25
The Imagined Emancipationist
Harry Turtledove's "The Guns of the South" cast Robert E. Lee as a victor whose allies turn out to be otherworldly
Published: 10/2/24
Silent Rebel
Reflections on the cover story—"Rebel Revival" by William Marvel—of The Civil War Monitor's Fall 2024 issue.
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Published: 10/2/24
Robert E. Lee’s Unwritten History
Author Stephen Cushman offers his theory as to why Robert E. Lee didn't write a memoir of his Civil War experiences.
Published: 6/7/23
Voices From the Army of Northern Virginia, Part 7: Robert E. Lee
Historian Gary Gallagher on the best books written about Army of Northern Virginia commander Robert E. Lee
Published: 12/22/21
Robert E. Lee (2021)
A review of Allen C. Guelzo's welcome new biography of Robert E. Lee.
Published: 9/8/21
A Fire in the Wilderness (2021)
A worthwhile read about the first battlefield confrontation between Grant and Lee.
Published: 4/9/21
Word-Clouding Lee’s and Grant’s Farewell Addresses
View the words Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee used in the farewell addresses they delivered to their men as represented in a word cloud.
Published: 2/24/21
Robert E. Lee and Me (2021)
Review of a book that deserves a wide readership.
Published: 6/1/20
Seating for Surrender
When Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met to discuss the terms of Confederate surrender, they used the chairs—and sat at the table—shown here.
Published: 4/9/20
Lee Bids Farewell
Read Robert E. Lee's farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia written shortly after the surrender at Appomattox.
Published: 3/7/20
Robert E. Lee and Traveller Tintype
A tintype of Robert E. Lee and Traveller may be "the last original photograph of Lee in private hands." Learn how much it earned at auction.
Published: 10/14/19
Lee’s War Horse: Traveller
Learn about Confederate general Robert E. Lee's warhorse, Traveller.
Published: 7/1/18
The Decision
Why did Robert E. Lee turn down command of the Union army and join the Confederacy in 1861? It’s complicated.
Published: 4/6/18
Beyond the White Man’s Iliad
The removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, is one of the best known examples of opposition to Confederate monuments.
Published: 9/8/17
Robert E. Lee, Confederate Memorials, and the Burden of the Past
By Cville dog – Own work, Wikimedia Commons The Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park On August 13, a statue of Robert E. Lee took center stage in...
Published: 1/18/17
Extra Dossier: Robert E. Lee
Library of Congress For the Dossier section of the Summer 2015 issue of The Civil War Monitor, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series of questions about...
Published: 11/14/14
An Interview with Glenn LaFantasie
Our conversation with Glenn LaFantasie, the Robert Frockt Family Professor of History at Western Kentucky University. In this interview, we discuss Dr. LaFantasie’s most recent article entitled “Broken Promise” that...
Published: 7/15/13
The Pursuit
On July 7 Major General George Gordon Meade left Gettysburg and traveled to Frederick, Maryland. He found the streets crowded with people eager to get a glimpse of him. The...