[jmacusa]

Robert E. Lee was a duly commissioned officer in the US Army who took up arms against the Constitution he took an oath to defend. He's lucky he wasn't hung. After the disaster for the Confederacy at Gettysburg he and Davis should have seen the war was lost. They didn't and the slaughter continued for two more years.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Mostly agreed.

Papers in the north called for his hanging and he rode into Appomattox expecting his fate.

Four years later Lee accepted an invitation to the White House from President Grant.

Gen Lee was a complex man of great honor, that cannot be changed.

As Lincoln said:
“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.”

[Brass Lamp]

Robert E. Lee was a duly commissioned officer in the US Army who took up arms against the Constitution he took an oath to defend.

Actually, it was Lincoln who was at war with the Constitution and breaking his oath. Lee was just fighting the central government which was, itself, violating the Constitution.