Also called Lee's Birthday | Type State holiday | |
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Observed by Alabama
Mississippi
Florida (on January 19) Significance CSA Army of Northern Virginia commanding general's birthday Date Third Monday in January 2016 date January 18 (2016-01-18) | ||
Robert E. Lee Day, also called Lee's Birthday, is a public holiday commemorating the birth of Robert E. Lee, observed each year on the third Monday in January. Because Lee was General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States, it is mainly observed in the U.S. South, particularly Alabama and Mississippi.
Although Lee's actual January 19 birthdate remains a legal holiday in the Florida statute books, by and large it is not observed.
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