Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... governor of Virginia to command the Virginia forces for the Confederate Army. The Confederate Army, led by Brigadier General Joseph E.

the confederate forces were renamed the Army of Northern Virginia when Robert E. Lee assumed command on June 1, 1862, in a battle to defend the city of Richmond from Union forces. Before taking ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... Instead, Lee commanded the Virginia state forces and became a general in the Confederate army, praised as a tactician who led his men ...

He has publicly opposed the removal of Confederate statues and repeatedly praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, endearing ...

After months of debate and input from students, Robert E. Lee was selected during the December 1957 Board of Trustees meeting. The school adopted Confederate imagery, including the second largest ...

Lee has always been part of that solution, because no Confederate has ... say recently: “Robert E. Lee literally had the privilege of choosing which army he wanted to lead in the Civil War.

During the three days of July 1-3, 1863, the country held its collective breath, as the Confederate Army of North Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac under ...

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

Robert E. Lee wasn ... The statue of Lee was already slated for removal by the city, but the Battle of Charlottesville should be an inflection point in the broader debate over Confederate ...

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 ...