Well, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I can’t fathom Robert E. Lee losing on purpose.
I’ll stick with my supposition: He was prideful enough to think he couldn’t lose.
Not that he didn’t have some history to back it up.
But, as the scripture says, “Pride goes before destruction.”
Well you have to consider that Lee was a military genius. He was also an extremely religious and humble man, like Thomas Jackson so I’m not sure it was pride. I guess we’ll never know until we get up there and ask him lol.