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To: JCBreckenridge

Lee personally freed slaves, when forced to do so by his father in law’s will, after going to court in the midst of war several times in an attempt to avoid freeing them.

The girl slaves born after his father in law wrote his will were sold off, as not being under the terms of his father in law’s will. In the midst of the war he paid slave catchers for kidnapped persons who could be represented as slaves, captured by diversion of the pretended confederate cavalry to slave catching from screening duties during his military invasion of PA. Then at Gettysburg he had the cheek to blame his lack of intelligence on the Union forces on others.


211 posted on 07/06/2013 10:29:15 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: donmeaker

So he personally freed more slaves than he ever himself owned?

I wonder if Lincoln can say the same.


212 posted on 07/06/2013 10:32:30 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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