From my home to yours: Robert E. Lee’s Christmas wish
Amid the crowded holidays, after a contentious election, Robert E. Lee offers us these thoughts: But what a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and…
Robert E. Lee’s benediction for two Confederates from Iowa
Four years after Appomattox, Robert E. Lee wrote to former U.S. Senator George Wallace Jones. They had a friend in common, General Charles Gratiot. Besides that, two of Jones’s sons…