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On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of America.

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them.

The holidays were adopted by states across the South during the years after Reconstruction, historians say, when Confederate supporters were promoting the false "Lost Cause" mythology to downplay the causes of the Civil War and the evils of slavery and cast the leaders of the Confederacy as inspirational heroes.

Southern textbooks altered historical facts in lessons about the "War Between the States," cities and counties were named or renamed, and Confederate monuments were erected in Southern public squares.

Supporters say that the monuments, names, holidays and flag honored Southern ancestors who fou