Name some.
When his father-in-law died, Lee took over the management of the plantation his wife had inherited and immediately began freeing the slaves. By the time Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, every slave in Lee’s charge had been freed.
Again, incorrect. Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. Lee didn't free the last of his slaves until December.
Notably, some Union generals didn’t free their slaves until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.
Name one.
You are intent on destroying a man that leaders on both sides of the Potomac had great respect and admiration for.
Apparently you find the truth destructive. Maybe that's why you seem to be avoiding it.
He was a decent man.
So I've been told.
Lee vigorously opposed slavery and as early as 1856 made this statement: “There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.”
Vigorously opposed slavery? Read that quote in context and the only thing Lee vigorously opposed was anyone interfering with slavery. Nine years later Lee was writing, "Considering the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and an enlightened public sentiment, as the best that can exist between the white and black races while intermingled as at present in this country, I would deprecate any sudden disturbance of that relation unless it be necessary to avert a greater calamity to both."
The fact that Gen. Lee trusted God more than men is all that is learned in the quote you cite. You will not be swayed by any history of Lees efforts to end slavery. You are only satisfied to play God as your heroes did and kill those that God himself never commanded to cease in this miserable institution. God taught that all men should be content and to honor Him in whatever their position was. He taught slaves to love and obey their masters. He taught slave holders to love and respect their slaves. And he worked on our hearts through His Word and Providence. He taught us how to change hearts. It was not by bullets and bombs, brothers against brothers.
The pen of one of Gen. Lee’s freed slaves will no doubt be denied by you. The Rev. William Mack Lee said this, “I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than Gen. Robert E. Lee, according to my judgment. All of his servants were set free ten years before the war, but all remained on the plantation until after the surrender.” William Mack cooked for General Lee’s Confederate troops throughout the war. He stayed with him, because he loved and respected him.