("Stonewall") Jackson's relations with Robert E. Lee and the two men's talents. The interpretative pendulum has swung back in their favor. Christian B. Keller has produced a detailed study of their exploits that is likely to have wide appeal. He makes a persuasive case for the consonance...
Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee statue Statues of two of the most notable Confederate generals are no longer standing in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Credit: Michelle Colbert, M.A. via Storyful) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Cheers erupted Saturday as a Confederate statue that towered f...
Lee-Jackson Day is a state holiday in Virginia on the Friday before Martin Luther King Day to honor both Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In Georgia, they commemorate Lee's birthday on the day after Thanksgiving, which is a state holiday in another 22 states, and is on ...
Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman the lecture describes the Union General George McClellan's abortive 1862 Peninsula campaign, which introduced the world to Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The lecture concludes with Confederate General Robert E. Lee...
Lee-Jackson Day honored two Confederate generals and was celebrated the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“right arm,” Stonewall Jackson; and the dashing “eyes” of his army, J.E.B. “Jeb” Stuart. For these men, the Civil War was just the ticket. Lee, however, has come down in history as too fine for the bloodbath of 1861-65. To efface the squalor and horror of the war, we ...
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He had also lost his “right arm,” Stonewall Jackson, who had been mortally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville. Lee had always shown an inclination to issue orders that gave subordinates significant latitude in carrying them out. During the Gettysburg campaign, that proclivity allowed ...
Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of official state holidays. Virginia in 2020 scrapped a holiday honoring Lee and Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, both natives of the state, to make Election Day a state holiday. ...