On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of America. Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

But according to Florida Statute 683.01, this date each year is a legal holiday worth celebrating: Robert E. Lee Day. Jan. 19 is the Confederate army general's birthday (today he'd be 209 years ...

Efforts to remove Confederate Memorial Day and replace it with Juneteenth have been unsuccessful in the Mississippi Legislature. Mississippi also celebrates Robert E. Lee Day on the same day as ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Do you know which ones? This year, the ...

Lee-Jackson Day is a holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the USA, for the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The original holiday, created in 1889 ...

Robert E. Lee Memorial Association ... The great Southern diarist of his day, Mary Chesnut, tells us that when a lady teased him about his ambitions, he “remonstrated—said his tastes were ...

They rode with me till late that day. I visited the battlefield in ... Ever your devoted father. R E Lee Source: Lee, Robert E., Jr, Recollections and Letters of General Robert E.

Students and staff at Robert E. Lee High School on Jacksonville’s Westside are getting excited for National College Signing Day next week. News4Jax spoke with Lee High School Principal Scott ...

Mississippi also celebrates Robert E. Lee Day on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day soon. Only four states still honor the Civil War ...

The only other state celebrating Robert E. Lee Day and King together is Alabama. Similar bills to separate the celebration of Lee or strike it from the state holiday calendar completely have also ...