Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.” Do young people still hear stories about George Washington, Booker T. Washington and Robert E. Lee? There was a time when schools and businesses closed in respect for the birthday of one of the South's favorite sons -Robert E. Lee. Tuesday, January 19, 2016, is the 209th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Americans and people throughout God’s good earth. During Robert E. Lee’s 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Army Commander and grandson of United States President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College’s Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

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