This 4-cent stamp, part of the 1936-37 Army commemorative series, features portraits of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, with Lee's ancestral home, Stratford Hall, in the background. The inclusion of Confederate leaders on a U.S. postage stamp was in itself a notable act of reconciliation. However, the stamp became controversial in the South because the portrait of Lee showed him with only two stars on his collar, the rank of a lieutenant general, when he was a full general with three stars. This was seen by some as a deliberate slight. The Post Office defended the design, stating it was based on a photograph taken when Lee held the lower rank. This "strange" controversy over a small detail illustrates the lingering sensitivities surrounding the Civil War in the 1930s.