Joining the Army Rangers Military.com All Rangers volunteer to become members of the 75th Ranger Regiment and complete the rigorous Ranger Assessment and Selection Program, known as RASP, to join the ranks of this elite U.S. Army Special Operations Command unit.
Robert E. Lee (1807-70) served as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the legendary general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-65). In June 1861, Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, which he would lead for the rest of the war.
Richard Henry Lee was the third son of a Thomas Lee, the empire builder, who as the 5th son of Richard Lee the emigrant, the largest Virginia landowner at the time of his death in 1640, received a modest inheritance. At an early age Richard Henry Lee was sent over to England for schooling at the academy of Wakefield in Yorkshire.