A few weeks backs I documented several contemporaries that were with Lee, or knew him very well. His Pulitzer prize (one of two such awards) winning biographer noted on several occasions that Lee was dressed in cilvilian clothes on the way to the convention. It could be that someone is simply allowing the drool/foam/hatred to blind them to reality.
I saw it, but thought I would check into Partisan's claims. She does later in the book make the blanket statement that Lee was subverting the government, "while wearing a U.S. uniform." The claim is basically that Lee was satan from cradle to grave, so if he ever donned a uniform, it was done with only treachery in his heart.
It could be that someone is simply allowing the drool/foam/hatred to blind them to reality.
You say this jokingly, but the book sitting closed on the table is still oozing hatred. I will have to lock it in the safe overnight for fear that it may come to life, prowl the house, and prey upon my young children. Example:
After considering the Official Reports, which we have cited at length, the reader will know that General Cox's summary of the partial destruction of Columbia ais admirable and correct: the fire was started by the Confederates, who sought to destroy the cotton; and the citizens of Columbia, both black and white, by plying some of the soldiers with liquor, raised against themselves the "invisible spirit of wine," and, thus sowing the wind, they reaped the whirlwind. [G: italics in original, bold mine]
Those poor Union soldiers. As Ms Shelton explains, they practically had no choice but burn the city to the ground after those wicked civilians put them under the spell of alchohol.
Didn't there used to be a Rebel brand beer? Maybe something with a Dixie cross on the can? I seem to remember that from years ago. I'll have to hope somebody else remembers, as one can only imagine what Google comes up with when you search for "Rebel flag beer can"