[yooper]

"Some of us care to think he fought on the RIGHT side!"

He fought on the wrong side and admitted as much before his death. But he's still one of the greatest Americans ever.

[wagglebee]

I believe that Lee fought FOR Virginia and her sovereignty, he was heartbroken to fight against the United States.

[PeaRidge]

"He fought on the wrong side and admitted as much before his death."

Admitted?

Shortly before his death in 1870, General Robert E. Lee told former Texas Governor Fletcher Stockdale that, in light of how the Republican Party was treating the people of the South through the disastrous reconstruction policies, he would never had surrendered at Appomattox, but would rather have died there with his men in one final battle. He said,

“Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand.”