His Whiskers Trimmed: Robert E. Lee in Defeat
Matthew Karp, 7 April 2022
Robert Edward Lee was, in the universal judgment of his contemporaries, a beautiful man. Few Civil War generals inspired such commentary: ‘He stands fully six feet one inch in height,’ a New York Herald reporter wrote, ‘and weighs something over two hundred pounds, without being burdened with a pound of superfluous flesh.’ He was an ‘unusually handsome...