What are you referring to that did Lee did in 1870? Besides pass away that is.
“Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand.”
To Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale of Texas, (September 1870