Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Lee, from its campus in August; and the San Antonio Independent School District voted in unanimously last month to change the name of its Robert E. Lee High School following a 5-2 vote in 2015 to ...

Lee instead. Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since ... Trump praised Lee’s military “genius” in an interview last October on The Joe Rogan ...

General Lee with his generals, 1907. Courtesy: Library of Congress Letter from Robert E. Lee to Winfield Scott ... camp within six miles of Fitzhugh's last night. Rob came up and spent the ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... In Mississippi, it's an official state holiday on the last Monday in April. In Alabama and Florida, it's on the fourth Monday in April.

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... It breaks a generational link,” Hegseth said on a podcast last year while promoting his book "The War on Warriors." ...