robertelee He surrendered at Appomattox Court House Top Confederate general at the end of the Civil War: 3 wds Surrenderer at Appomattox Steamboat of song His U.S. citizenship was posthumously restored in 1975 1850s Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point Arlington House is his memorial First monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. Noted 1829 West Point graduate C.S.A. name Traveller's rider General at Gettysburg