what you have posted, N-S, is a combination of NONSENSE, HALF-truths & outright DY PROPAGANDA.
NOBODY here but "DUH snake" & "Mr SPIN" are clueLESS enough to believe that SELF-serving, REVISIONIST, BILGE any more.
free dixie,sw
I doubt Watie will accept anything as an original source short of you showing up at his door with the actual signed document in hand, but here...
The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. Robert E. Lee letter dated December 27, 1856
A January 11, 1865 letter written to senator Andrew Hunter of Virginia, in response to Mr. Hunter's request to know General Lee's opinion on black troops. Link