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Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS • The Lt. Robert E. Lee, a major floating restaurant on the bustling St. Louis riverfront in the 1970s that was ...
Robert E. Lee that has towered over this Virginia ... argument of the history of the statue, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax told USA TODAY: “We don't need to be bound by history, we should ...
Robert E. Lee often concluded orders to his generals with polite phrases easily misinterpreted as escape clauses. On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, he ordered Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell to ...
When Virginia state Senators honored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Friday, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, only the second African American elected to statewide office in Virginia, briefly left the ...
Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1838. PD. Robert Edward Lee is the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia ...
RICHMOND — Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax ... state Senate on Friday in protest of a tribute to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Fairfax (D), who normally presides over Richmond’s upper chamber ...
Lt. Gov. Fairfax, who will be celebrating the 222nd anniversary of his great grandfather being freed from slavery on June 5, spoke about what the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue means for gene ...
In 1950, as a young second lieutenant at Fort Lee, he was refused entry into the base's whites-only officer club. "At that time, there were two officers clubs," Gregg, 94, said in an interview.
"Lt. Col. Charity Adams-Earley served as the highest-ranking Black woman officer during World War II," said Anthony Eley, and Education Specialist with the National Museum of the United States ...
including an immediate plan to move a portrait of Robert E. Lee wearing a Confederate uniform into storage. Lee, once a U.S. military general who was ultimately appointed commander of the ...
Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1838. PD. Robert Edward Lee is the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia ...