Robert E. Lee

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States, which they saw as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The war lasted a little over four years, ending with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery, freeing four million African Americans.

Confederate States general (1807–1870)

national cemetery in Virginia, United States

1865 battle of the American Civil War

horse born in 1857

surrender of the Confederate States at the end of the American Civil War

American businessman and writer (1843–1914)