According to TR, “(Lee)... was the greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth.”
The revisionists have no idea how universally loved and admired, by both Northerners and Southerners, the General was.
Re: the revisionists. The amazing thing is that in a low and cynical age that breeds revisionists (some needed) at every turn, the debunkers have never laid a finger on Lee. Sure, one can second guess this or that tactical decision, and he made some mistakes, though fewer than his fair share, but I herewith list below every single discreditable thing that historians have discovered about the man’s character and personal behavior:
And if you try really hard to accentuate the negative, there is:
Washington is in this class as well, but Lee earned his pedestal.