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The great-great grandchildren of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson have a message for those who adamantly want to preserve the Confederate leaders’ monuments: Let it go.
Lee V, the general’s great-great-grandson and an athletic ... “We were never taught in our family that Robert E. Lee was fighting for slavery. He was fighting for the state of Virginia and ...
Robert E. Lee's great-great grandson condemned last ... A public memorial service for Heyer was held Wednesday where friends, family and other mourners paid their respects to the legal assistant. " ...
"Robert E. Lee ultimately signs a deed to free 40 ... They're the general's great-great-grandchildren. While the family has kept the name alive, they've worked to bury the ideas associated with ...
Rev. Robert Lee IV says taking down these symbols is an "opportunity." Rev. Robert Lee IV is the great-great-great-nephew of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and he says that taking down ...
The parishioners responded with great grace and ... have a descendant of Robert E. Lee. But I just got an email from a lady who spoke to me about being owned by my family and how her ancestors ...
"I'm on this committee, the Family Circle ... an incredible gift," says Sarah Fleming. Her fourth great-grandfather was Robert E. Lee's uncle. "We all grew up being very excited that we were ...
Lee is the fourth great-nephew of Confederate General ... N.C., May 5 “As a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s family, I have borne the weight and responsibility of that lineage.” ...
Family members of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee and descendants of people the Lee family enslaved will meet on the very same land their ancestors lived and worked on in a reconciliatory event ...
Robert E. Lee at the center of the protest last ... “There is also the family connection.” “Lee ends up marrying into the Custis family [Martha Dandridge Custis, the widow of a wealthy ...
"I'm on this committee, the Family Circle ... an incredible gift," says Sarah Fleming. Her fourth great-grandfather was Robert E. Lee's uncle. "We all grew up being very excited that we were ...