During the Civil War about one-fifth of West Point's students, which included many from secessionist states, left the academy to serve with the Confederacy, according to the commission.

There have been three iterations of the Ku Klux Klan since the end of the Civil War, and the West Point relief is intended to represent the first, which was active between 1865 and 1870.

Like everything at West Point, it’s all organized and planned. According to the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland, while the Corps of Cadets is away this win… ...

U.S. Military Academy at West Point via AP, File hide caption. ... It will also remove the stone bust of the Civil War's top southern general at Reconciliation Plaza.

West Point Military Academy The first to go will be Robert E. Lee, who also served as superintendent of the military college before joining the Confederate army to fight the North during the Civil ...

West Point has begun removing Confederate monuments at the campus -- including a portrait of Robert E. Lee, who once served as the storied military academy's superintendent, officials said.

The Naming Commission identified about a dozen assets named for Confederate leaders and sympathizers at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and ... of the Civil War will continue to be ...

The Naming Commission’s report said that after the Civil War ended in 1865, no Confederate leader was invited to the academy until 1898. It was not until 1930 that West Point accepted and ...