[Past Your Eyes]

"It certainly would have been over much sooner if only R.E. Lee had taken Lincoln’s offer. There wouldn’t be an Arlington National Cemetery today. At least not in the place where it is."

What do you see that was sarcastic about this post?

[fieldmarshaldj]

That wasn’t the post I said was sarcastic. I said you were mistaken that the war would’ve been over sooner had Lee accepted Lincoln’s offer. It’s revisionist history. What I took your comment that followed to mean was that because Lee didn’t, all those folks now buried on his estate at Arlington wouldn’t have been killed in the CW. If you meant it differently, something got lost in the translation.