[fortheDeclaration]

Think what you wish. We can argue this point till H*ll freezes over, and you aren't going to convince me, nor will I convince you. We have different ideas of what loyalty to one's country is. Robert E. Lee felt a higher duty to his home, so do I. The place where you are born, bred, educated, and nurtured should have the first claim of allegiance. That concept was very popular until the WBTS. But, believe as you will, and so will I.

Well, if I have to choose between George Washington and Patrick Henry, both men who stated that they wanted to be known as Americans and not Virginians, or Robert E. Lee, my vote goes for Washington and Henry.

Lee was a great man, who did a great deal in sparing the South further damage by acknowledging that the war was over and it was time for Southerners to consider themselves as Americans again.

Go ye and do likewise.

[TexConfederate1861]

Apparently, you didn't read some of Lee's later writings.
He wasn't so happy with Reconstruction, and wished he had never surrendered.