“. . . before Robert Lee led the Confederacy, and basically ended the fame of the name.”
Robert E. Lee did not end the fame of the Lee family. Sorry to disagree.
Lee deserves honor because he could have taken his Army in to the woods and become a partisan, but he put the Country first and surrendered honorably, then worked to bring about peace.
What Lee after Robert’s generation was world-renowned, or at least nationally renowned?