https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/confederate-history-slave-ownership/
Tired of trying to make a clickable link on shrimp boat wifi. Can’t find the memoirs but this will have to do until I get back on land in June.
Lee freed his slaves which he inherited, not purchased, a year before the emancipation proclamation, whereas Yankee generals amongnothers kept theirs until after the war was over.
Actually Lee signed the manumission documents on December 31, 1862. One day before the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.
...whereas Yankee generals amongnothers kept theirs until after the war was over.
Name one.