A descendant of Confederate Col. Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that Fort Novosel revert to being named after her distant cousin. “Rucker family ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...

Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Lee County in Florida formed in 1887 from Monroe County with Fort Myers, the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers ...

Alabama and Mississippi have three Confederate-related state holidays. Both states mark Confederate Memorial Day in April and mark the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

In 1936, civil war erupted in Spain between the elected Republican ... Among the African-American volunteers was Fort Worth’s own Theodore Gibbs. Born in 1906 to Samuel and Estelle Gibbs ...

Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated by states in the South for decades following the Civil War, but was abandoned by most after President Ronald Reagan designated the third Monday in ...

A 75-year-old tax break for the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s headquarters, along with other Confederate groups, is again under challenge in the General Assembly, after last year’s ...

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