[Badeye]

“Remember also. Lee was a major reason that the South didn’t rise again. He went on a speaking tour advocating reconciliation after the war, and was much loved by all.”

Yep. Lee’s leadership qualities never shined brighter than they did in April 1865.

[Volunteer]

Shelby Foote, I think, said in the Ken Burns "Civil War" mini series, that Lee always was careful to march out of step with the cadets as president of Washington College as he had left his life of a soldier in the past.

I am reminded of Lee's "Definition of a Gentleman" where he stated that a gentleman could "let the past be but the past" and forget slights or injuries inflicted upon him by others.

In urging his fellow Southerners to rejoin the union and be good citizens of the United States of America, I believe he was living out this definition of a gentleman.