Lee at age 31 in 1838, as a Lieutenant of Engineers in the U. S. Army The state of Arkansas has a state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who was one of the most important military leaders of a splinter nation founded on the principle that people should be allowed to own other human beings. On Wednesday, a state
Arkansas Lawmakers Vote To Keep Holiday Celebrating Confederate General — On Martin Luther King Day
Robert E. Lee, led an army that killed thousands of people in defense of slavery is being honored by lawmakers in Arkansas.