The Pentagon has restored a 20-foot portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed. The painting, which shows a slave guiding Lee's horse in the background, had hung at the United States Military Academy for 70 years before being placed in storage in 2022.
The portrait's removal followed a 2020 law that required Confederate names and symbols to be stripped from military bases and academies, part of a broader reckoning with race and history after the killing of George Floyd.
