Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee with a slave at West Point Library

There are at least three news articles about this subject! However, none of these article show an image of this portrait.

Ain't this peculiar!

"The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. ..."

Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library - The New York Times




Gen. Maxwell Taylor and other dignitaries and guests at the unveiling of the portrait of Robert E. Lee at West Point on January 19, 1952.  (Source)




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