[Vermont Lt]

This is going to get me in trouble.

I agree that Lee was a very good general.

He is also a man that took an oath, the same oath I took, to defend the constitution.

He broke that oath.

I look at his military skills in the same light as Rommel—a great mind, but on the wrong side.

[central_va]

This is going to get me in trouble.

Don't worry the Yankee Lincoln Coven loves you. Soon, you will be issued a Lincoln blow up doll, a pack of matches and a reading list that includes Mein Kampf and the biography of Julius Caesar. This is Coven standard issue.

Welcome to the jungle...

[Non-Sequitur]

I agree that Lee was a very good general.

Was Lee a good general? Yes. Was he the best general of the war? No.

[Idabilly]

He didn't break any oath. Lee resigned his commission, just as the Several States did. Secession isn't prevented in the Constitution; therefore, it's a right withheld by the ninth, and tenth Amendments. The Constitution is a treaty between the Sovereigns that created it, the States.

As John Taylor said:

The sovereignties which imposed the limitations upon the federal government, far from supposing that they perished by the exercise of a part of their faculties, were vindicated, by reserving powers in which their deputy, the federal government, could not participate; and the usual right of sovereigns to alter or revoke its commissions.