Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Many states in the South initially adopted this approach. Most, including Lee's ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon.

Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... took Lee only an hour to put an end to Brown's raid. Such early successes made Lee a leading candidate to command Union forces against the South ...

Robert E. Lee is chosen to replace Johnson and take control of the South's biggest field army, the Army of Northern Virginia. Union General George McClellan's forces come within four miles of ...