No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant ... including the loss of another famous Confederate, General "Stonewall" Jackson. End of June 1863 Lee's army is in high spirits and they rally ...

In 1957, Texas Attorney General John Shepperd had selected ... the University of Texas at Austin removed three Confederate statues, including Robert E. Lee, from its campus in August; and ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... While talking about Fort Bragg, named for an ineffective Confederate general which was renamed Fort Victory in 2023, National Guard veteran ...

However, two states celebrate another historical figure on the same day, confederate general Robert E. Lee. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details. Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as defense secretary ...

Lee has always been part of that solution, because no Confederate has been ... how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be emulated,” the general responded eloquently.

The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.

An honorable soldier, Lee is an apt symbol for the Confederate ... the field where General George Pickett undertook his doomed charge. If you can’t honor Robert E. Lee there, you can’t honor ...

King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...