Robert E. Lee

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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, from a collection of Civil war photographs, dated 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Katherine Ridgway, state archaeological conservator, prepares to wrap and remove a box believed to be the 1887 time capsule that was put under Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue's pedestal Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Richmond, Va. In back, Everett Mercer, 10, son of Governor Ralph Northam's chief staff Clark Mercer, stands by to help. Crews wrapping up the removal Monday of the giant pedestal that once held a statue of Gen. Lee found what appeared to be a second and long-sought-after time capsule, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said. (Eva Russo/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

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Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, reopens after a 30-month, $12.3 million rehabilitation. (Image courtesy of National Park Service)

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The statue of Confederate Army of Northern Virginia Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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This Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, photo provided by the Office of the Governor of Virginia shows workers removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington. The statue that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed after a state commission decided that Lee was not a fitting symbol for the state. (Jack Mayer/Office of Governor of Virginia, File)

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Vicki Heilig, national committee chairman of the Daughters of the Confederacy and president of the Robert E. Lee chapter 644, pauses after taking a picture of Lee's statue in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. Ms. Heilig was one of the daughters who placed a wreath at Lee's statue on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007 in honor of his birthday. (Barbara L. Salisbury / The Washington Times)

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Virginia state law has prevented the city of Charlottesville from taking down the bronze statue of Robert E. Lee atop his horse Traveler, despite race-tinged clashes that left one counterprotester dead nearly one year ago. (Associated Press)

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United States stamp carries a picture of General Robert E. Lee of Washington on March 26, 1937, which shows but two stars on his military coat. In this picture, one of Lee?s favorite photographs and autographed by him, three stars can be seen. The picture is owned by Mrs. Annie Chamlers Owen, to whom it was given by General Lee when she was a girl of nine. (AP Photo)

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Robert E. Lee. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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The changes include converting historic Lee Chapel to a museum and changing official references to Robert E. Lee from "General Lee" to "President Lee.

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Robert E. Lee's boyhood home goes up for sale, priced at $8.5 million and deemed one of the nation's 'most desirable properties." (Washington Fine Properties)

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FILE- In this Aug. 23, 2017, file photo, city workers drape a tarp over the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va. A Virginia judge ruled Wednesday, Oct. 4, that a lawsuit over Charlottesville's plans to remove the statue should go forward. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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Christ Church in Alexandria, Va. — an Episcopal parish where George Washington and Robert E. Lee worshiped — is depicted here. The parish vestry announced on Oct. 26, 2017, that it would remove and relocate memorial plaques in honor of both men, citing a desire to provide a "welcoming" worship space. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), general of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. CORBIS

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This Wednesday, July 19, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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This Tuesday June 27, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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This Tuesday, June 27, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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FILE- In this May 19, 2017 file photo, a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans. Lee's was the last of four monuments to Confederate-era figures to be removed under a 2015 City Council vote on a proposal by Mayor Mitch Landrieu. State Rep. Patricia Smith, a black Baton Rouge Democrat, received 105 emails alone, almost all favoring a proposal by her Republican colleague Thomas Carmody that would have erected obstacles to tearing down such monuments. (AP Photo/Scott Threlkeld, File)