US states celebrate Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday honoring Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Which ones? What we know

Does Mississippi still celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gen. Robert E. Lee on the same day? Here’s what to know.

A confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee is now sitting in Marion Square, but questions have arisen about how the tribute to the controversial figure came to be in such a prominent spot. The highway memorial displays the seal of confederacy in tribute to the War General Robert.

After the Wednesday meeting of the city of Charleston’s history commission – the first since the sudden December appearance of a controversial 2.4-ton Confederate highway monument in Marion Square – it’s still unclear how it got there.

Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of "The Lost Cause" and eventually a racist icon. Historians say his transformation, at the center of the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., reflects the changing moods in the United States around race, mythology and national reconciliation.

An underwater look at wrecks that rest only miles apart in the Gulf of Mexico. The Robert E. Lee, a passenger steamer that was attacked en route from New Orleans to Trinidad, is seen in this image made from the "A Tale of Two Wrecks: U-166 and SS Robert E.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) –A highway marker honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee has a new home in Marion Square, but is raising concerns among some city leaders, who say the decision lacked public input.

A letter reported to be written by Robert E. Lee in 1861 to Gen. Winfield Scott, resigning his commission before the beginning of the Civil War, will be auctioned today in Atascosa. A Civil War document, touted as possibly the most important of that era ...