ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 21, 1997 TAG: 9701210092
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
SOURCE: Associated Press
THE STATE CAPITOL'S Old House of Delegates featured actors portraying the two generals in period attire.
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, who shared the Lee-Jackson-King holiday, were honored Sunday in the state Capitol's Old House of Delegates chamber.
Actors portraying Lee and Jackson dressed in period clothing and read letters the Confederate generals had written during the Civil War.
Also over the weekend on Richmond's Monument Avenue, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans dressed in Rebel uniforms and marched around Jackson's statue.
Arlington House, the mansion where Lee lived before the Civil War, held a two-hoher King Jr. with some treacherous Confederate generals?'' Gillis asked.
The shared holiday bill passed the state legislature in 1984 after seven years of effort by then-Sen. Douglas Wilder and often acrimonious debate among Virginians.
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