Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general and, by all accounts, a gentleman. However, he also violated the oath he took as an officer in the United States Army and took up arms against his country. He was a traitor and should have been treated as such.
>>Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general and, by all accounts, a gentleman. However, he also violated the oath he took as an officer in the United States Army and took up arms against his country. He was a traitor and should have been treated as such.
Spoken like a true Yankee who can’t stop bashing the vanquished.
Sort of like today’s Libs, eh?
Try again.
Lee loved Virginia more than his country. That’s why he fought.
Read this book and educate yourself.
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Lee-Leadership-Executive-Character/dp/0761516808
Some think Lincoln was the cowardly traitor. The Congress “clothed Lincoln with the military power of the whole nation; allowed him to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and place all finances of the country in his hands; obliterated the state links, and abolished the state militias.”
Of course this led to civil war. The same thing is happening all over again, but with Obama at the helm now.
Lee was a great American and revered the General and the principles upon which this country was founded. Not so Lincoln!
I understand Lee's motivations for fighting on the side of the Confederacy. For a man of his social class, upbringing and standing, there was no other way, really.
But the man, through his command of his army, is responsible for the deaths of more loyal Americans than even Hitler. In terms of historical respect, he should not be placed in the same category as the Union generals who fought to preserve the Union.
hmmm..I guess Washington was a ‘traitor’ too, then since he I am sure violated some sort of oath of loyalty toward the British Crown, over the ‘outdated’ notions of liberty, freedom, and loyalty toward his fellow citizens and God??
Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general and, by all accounts, a gentleman. However, he also violated the oath he took as an officer in the United States Army and took up arms against his country. He was a traitor and should have been treated as such.
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Couldn’t exactly the same thing have been said about Washington and others who had been in the British Army and then fought on the side of the colonies?