You really have no idea what you’re talking about and are ill-educated - perfectly evidenced by your weak “he wuz on dur wrong side o history” argument.
“Lee privately opposed the Confederacy in letters in early 1861, denouncing secession as “nothing but revolution” and an unconstitutional betrayal of the efforts of the Founding Fathers. Writing to his eldest son in January, Lee stated:
The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North, as you say. I feel the aggression, and am willing to take every proper step for redress. It is the principle I contend for, not individual or private benefit. As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and institutions, and would defend any State if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for “perpetual union,” so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled.[84]
Despite his opposition to secession in principle, Lee’s objection on the basis of constitutionality was ultimately outweighed by a sense of personal honor, reservations about the legitimacy of a strife-ridden “Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets,” and duty to defend his native Virginia if attacked.[84] Lee held no illusions about the prospect of civil war and was one of few to correctly foresee the protracted and devastating nature of the conflict.[85]”
Lee, while unapologetic about his actions to defend his state of Virginia in the Civil War was instrumental in reconstruction and reunification afterwards with the North to bring the states back into the union.
I does not matter what he opposed in private. He supported the Confederacy, killed men that opposed him to preserve the institution of slavery. That’s the sum of it. Those are simple facts.
And the fact that you started your post with insults speaks volumes about you.
The Confederacy was an oppressive regime built on the backs of slaves. Robert E. Lee as are all that fought for the Confederacy are not worthy of public honor. They should be footnoted in history and their statues should not be on a public square but in museums.
They were traitors, racists, and rebels that were worthy of being crushed for taking up arms against the Union. I know that hurts your feelings but fact’s don’t care about your feelings.