It’s been almost a decade since the Austin elementary school my kids attended, the school formerly known as Robert E ... South after the Civil War; by characterizing Lee as more antislavery ...

Indeed, Democratic newspapers speculated that their party’s strongest presidential nominee in 1868 would be former Confederate General Robert E. Lee ... president as a “civil officer ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Scroll to continue SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have ... remain intact or be turned into Civil War-style cannons. But on Saturday ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

Confederate Memorial Day and Lee's birthday were enshrined in Florida law in 1895, 30 years after the end of the Civil War. Jefferson Davis Day was added in 1905. Does Florida recognize Robert E.

But the president embarked on a lesson of the Civil War while speaking to an ... Grant in characteristically populist terms. “So Robert E. Lee was a great general and Abraham Lincoln developed ...

The re-enactment will commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Army in 1865. Dr. Fields ...

Members of the People’s Organization For Progress will journey to Mercer County to honor Black Civil War Soldiers today, ...