Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the state holiday?

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... and moves on to his greatest engineering challenge, "moving" the Mississippi River. The Mississippi had been drifting away from the St ...

Lee's father, Maj. Gen. "Light-Horse Harry" Lee fought in the Revolutionary War. Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...