Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians ... bill would have moved the Lee holiday to Columbus Day in October, which coincides with the month of his death. Neither bill made it to ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Known as a ferocious fighter, A.P. Hill was promoted to lieutenant general shortly before his death in 1865 ... During the Civil War, Hill was among the highest-regarded generals on either ...