West Point has begun removing Confederate monuments at the campus — including a portrait of Robert E. Lee, who once served ... History, and Museum Committee will propose new names for streets ...

Former Army Captain Jimmy Byrn graduated from the military academy at West Point ... Robert E. Lee as a Confederate General,” she said. “Maybe a better place for that portrait is in a museum ...

The first to go will be Robert E. Lee, who also served as superintendent ... removed from the library and put in storage at the West Point Museum. A stone bust of the southern general will be ...