What is Lee-Jackson Day?
When you head out the front door for work the Friday before the Martin Luther King holiday, you might envy a few people. They’re the folks you know who work for the Commonwealth of Virginia. On Friday before the King Federal holiday each year, Virginia celebrates Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. It honors two of the Civil War’s most famous Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, according to timeanddate.com.