[jmacusa]

Is the whole article necessary? Venerating a man responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans in the worst war this nation ever fought?

[tenthirteen]

Perhaps one should remember that General Lee did not start that war. Like millions of others, he was drawn into it by several factors not under their control. Like the others, Robert E. Lee was fighting for what he believed in and that was and is an acceptable endeavor for that time. In my opinion, your comment is caustic, ill advised and belligerent. That being said, I suspect that Robert E. Lee, had he heard it, would defend your right to say it and forgive you for having done so.

He, sir, was a gentleman.

[Chainmail]

I'm with you: he was an officer of the United States, sworn to defend our country and its Constitution. Had he continued to serve the United States, the war would have ended years and hundreds of thousands of casualties earlier.

He chose to use his talents to betray his country and to prolong the death and suffering of millions. I don't mourn his death - I mourn the irreplaceable men, Northern and Southern, lost because of his treason.

[Ohioan]

You have a very strange interpretation of history. Virginia did not seek the War; Lee did not seek the War. Lee only invaded the North, in 1962, as a tactical measure, after Virginia had been under bloody attack for many months.

You completely beg the Constitutional questions--still unresolved;--and thus which side--if either--caused the bloodshed.

General Grant, the Union General who received Lee's eventual surrender, venerated Lee even at that time--and personally interposed himself, to prevent a mean spirited plan to go after Lee, thereafter.

Your mean spirited comments do not serve any Conservative purpose, in today's very dicey times. We need to pull together to fight the current attempts to subvert what still remains of American principles in Washington.

William Flax

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

So the Civil War, and every casualty it incurred...Is Robert E. Lee's fault?

Thats simply not logical.

[Fiji Hill]

[Fast Moving Angel]

Venerating a man responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans in the worst war this nation ever fought?

Sounds like you're talking about Lincoln, not Lee.