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Lee Barracks, named for Civil War General Robert E. Lee, is shown at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, on July 13, 2020, in West Point, New York. Mark Lennihan / AP ...

Offering an updated analysis rather than significant archival finds, Varon’s narrative bears out this familiar portrait of a worrying, wounded commander, even if she rejects previous scholars ...

It’s hard to see Elizabeth Varon’s new biography of James Longstreet becoming a runaway bestseller, and that’s a shame, because her study of the Confederate general—one of Robert E. Lee ...

West Point has begun removing Confederate monuments at the campus -- including a portrait of Robert E. Lee, who once served as the storied military academy's superintendent, officials said.

Hicks wrote pointedly that the base “named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee is actually being operated by Major R.C.L. Graham as though it is still one of the Confederate states and as if ...

A federal commission has recommended that certain portraits of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, be removed from the military academy at West Point. Lee was the school’s superintendent ...

STUART — Judge Martin Clark said in a statement he has removed a portrait of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. “Jeb” Stuart from the circuit courtroom in Patrick County.

Rebel generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson won a decisive victory over the U.S. military at Chancellorsville, Va., in 1863. As recently as 1989 the U.S. Navy saw fit to name a warship for ...