Geez. I am a Yankee (even though born in VA)and I respect and admire the memory of General Lee. By all accounts, he was all that he was made out to be, and more.
Eisenhower was a military man...I would fully understand that he, even being a Pennsylvanian, would admire and respect the man.
Traitor? No, just doing what he thought was right.
What irritated me more was seeing him played in “Gettysburg” by a Leftist dumbass like Martin Sheen.
THAT bothered me.
What bothered me was Martin Sheen was too small to be Lee and didn’t have a commanding presence on screen. Too small, too small...
You have to see "Gods and Generals." Robert Duvall took the role over from Sheen, and has the kind of presence you would expect from Lee. Duvall is in fact, a distant descendant of Lee.
As a bit of trivia, Les Kinsolving played General Barksdale in the movie, a distant ancestor of his.