[Non-Sequitur]

he never owned a slave & was so poor that his parents-in-law had to send "care packages" to the Lees so that the children would "eat regularly".

Either you are a bald-faced liar or Douglas Southall Freeman is. Would you care to hazard a guess as to which one of you I'm putting my money on?

[stand watie]

i'm betting on the National Park Service's own data as TRUTH. Arlington House still has the "shipping documents" for the "care packages" sent to the Lees, because REL's military pay was inadequate to meet the family's basic financial needs. as you are aware, the Army paid officers barely enough to exist on in the antebellum period.

Freeman is WRONG on any number of other things, too.

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