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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, who was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army toward the end of the war.
A video of Baton Rouge activist Gary Chambers Jr. giving an impassioned speech in support of changing the name of a high school named for Robert E. Lee and calling out a school board member who ...
Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the Union Army as Virginia votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy, beginning the Civil War.Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of the war, leaves his family behind to fight in the Battle of Manassas.
The monument stands near the home of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee. [168] [169] In 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the UDC's headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, was graffitied and burned by protesters because of its role in the erection of Confederate monuments and perpetuating the Lost Cause ideology.
In his role as quartermaster general of the Union Army, it was Meigs who oversaw the transformation of Lee’s 1,100-acre plantation in Northern Virginia into Arlington National Cemetery – a ...
The Gettysburg campaign was a military invasion of Pennsylvania by the main Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee in summer 1863. It was the first time during the war the Confederate Army attempted a full-scale invasion of a free state.
Virginia's highest court ruled Thursday that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a violent white ...
Governor Ralph Northam issued a statement on the removal of the Lee Monument immediately following the removal: "After 133 years, the statue of Robert E. Lee has finally come down—the last Confederate statue on Monument Avenue, and the largest in the South. The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell about who we are as a people.