Confederate General Robert E. Lee didn't own any slaves at the beginning of the Civil War. But there is some evidence that Union general Ulysses S. Grant had a slave. It was in a document that he signed in 1859 that emancipated the slave, William Jones, whom U.S. Grant stated in the document he had purchased from Frederick Dent (his father-in-law).
Little is known about the slave, William Jones, then again, there isn't any other documents that stated U.S. Grant even had Jones. But either way most people assumed Robert E. Lee had slaves, in which he hadn't, though his step father had. Robert E. Lee had even freed his step father's slaves as it was in his step father's will, that they would be freed after died.
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