What state celebrates Lee-Jackson Day?

I am a Southerner and a direct descendant of a Confederate soldier. I am beyond thankful the Union won the Civil War. That being said, both Jackson and Lee were men of honor, as anyone who bothers to do anything beyond cursory research on them will learn. However, I don't believe a holiday honoring them is warranted.

military people love those two (I am one)...but slavery was wrong and all men (and women) are created equal...

Larry Jones, It's still part of our History, particularly in the State of Virginia. Frankly, I think we should get a day off in September to commemorate our Victory at Yorktown, the battle that effectively won the American Revolution!

A choice of 4 southern states would have made this much tougher.

mario , Will you and your ilk ever stop your rantings and just enjoy a bit of American history?

Ugh! Combing those two holidays is bigotry at its finest!

Not if you’re a black American!Ronald Heisler,

This “celebration” was discontinued last year, and replaced as a holiday with Election Day in Virginia.

This is no longer celebrated in Virginia

Ralph A. Caya, invalid comparsion

They just took down a Stonewall Jackson statue yesterday. I live in Lee County, FL and a statue of Robert E. Lee was also taken down 🤬

Why would we celebrate people that fought for slavery. Europe don’t celebrate Hitler.

I believe it was in 1959 that Congress passed a bill declaring Veterans from both sides of the Civil War Veterans of the United States and that all monuments, statues, and graves are to be honored as such.

littledick, Maryland would have seceded but there were cannons facing Baltimore, not the harbor. They were, like Kentucky, prevented physically, early on, from being in the CSA. They did what they deemed their next best option, neutrality. I too, disavow slavery, but that isn't the big issue, only the war-cry pretense. A peaceful settlement could have been achieved (a hell of a lot cheaper) if the war-mongering arms dealers, etc. would have done as the TVA did --- Purchase the property at a fair price under eminent domain rights. Then the government could abolish all ties to slavery and release their "property". Nobody would have died needlessly. Plantations would not have been destroyed and later stolen by thieving opportunists labeled "carpetbaggers" who were allowed to essentially rape the losing side. The worst part of the Civil War Era was not just the carnage of the war itself, but the 8 years of the so-called reconstruction in the aftermath. Europe had been a witness to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Farce. Europe learned nothing from the reconstruction because their punishment of Germany after WWI was so harsh, cruel, and inhumane that Hitler was able to unite Germans in a revenge scheme which gave us WWII. After the allies again won the world war, Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower knew their history and they strove not to repeat it. Stalin was Stalin... look what it got him.

Larry Jones, thank you for your honesty.

Hehe, I figured. Lived in NC for 40+ years and understand a little bit of the South.

Got it

Easy question since both of these dudes hailed from Virginia. Maryland was a slave state, but did not secede. It's south of the Mason-Dixon line, but so is our nation's capital. Living there for 3 years I, indeed, noticed the "southern" attitudes.

Larry Jones, Ok, and I assume that is that?

Given the two named individuals I figured it could not be Penn or Nebr. Virginia was the obvious answer but I have come up short on some Civil War ---Confederacy questions since Maryland seems to be one of those states that sort of straddled the issues. In the end went with the gut and Virginia.