Robert E. Lee

Military & Veterans' Issues

An Army fort named after Robert E. Lee now honors 2 pioneering Black officers

Scott Neuman

Fort Lee, named after the leader of Confederate forces during the Civil War, was redesignated on Thursday to honor Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.
History

They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors

Debbie Elliott

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.