Lee instead. Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since ... have been contested and distorted since his death, but historian Eric Foner notes that Lee ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday ... destroyed most of Lee's army. Lee resisted efforts to build monuments in his honor after the war, preferring to move on, but after his death he was lionized into ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ... would have moved the Lee holiday to Columbus Day in October, which coincides with the month of his death.

Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated ... bill that proposed to move the date of Alabama’s Lee Day commemoration to the date of his death, Oct. 12, the bill, sponsored by Sen.

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... The length of time flags should be at half-staff after the death of a former president was set in 1954. Private companies and citizens ...