A letter writer expressed the idea of a “stupid question” regarding the column about how Florida still honors two traitors to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for four years, according to Encyclopedia Brittanica. The war began to die down on April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee surrendered to ...

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 ...

We need this year more than ever to be reminded of the meaning of the day. At a moment of national crisis that is frequently ...

Confederate General Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three ... which many in the Confederacy felt marked the end of the Civil War. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen.

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.