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You wrote quoting the source I provided:

“In another departure from the conventional portrait of Lee, you show him agonizing over joining the Confederacy.”

What?! She “discovered” one of the most commonly known things about Lee?! It was so well known Ang Lee used it in one of his movies.”

So perhaps you agree that Lee agonized.

What would he agonize about?

Would he agonize over whether it would rain? Would he agonize over an estimation of in which army he would rise most quickly?

Or would he agonize over an oath that he took during he career, that would require him to support the US against any enemy whatever, even if that enemy was his friends and neighbors. I submit the latter. Sadly he made the wrong decision. Fortunately for him, Grant was magnanamous in granting terms, giving him and others surrender terms that gave him immediate parole. When he was considered for a treason trial, his defense was that his terms did not permit that, that he had kept the terms of that parole, and that gave him immunity from trial. Not that he did not commit the offense, but rather that his parole, granted under the terms of his surrender were so magnanamous that he, and other soldiers under his command, were exempt from trial, conviction, and punishment.

As Bill Ayers said after getting off on a technicality for many fewer deaths than Lee: “Guilty as Hell, free as a bird.”

And like R.E. Lee, Ayers went into academia where traitors could be protected and coddled by the like minded.