[1010RD]

There’s also the story of how Robert E. Lee intervened when a black man wanted to take the sacrament. The preacher and the congregation balked, but Lee got up and stood with him. How rare a man.

[crz]

This is all so late. If you get a chance, get the book civil war memoirs of grant and read it. Grant was a man of very poor judgment of people-his downfall when he was president. But a great general. He handled 5 armies at the age of the early 40s.
He basically said that if the south had simply said it could not live with the north and wished to be separate, he would have supported them. But they attacked military and civilian targets of the north and that convinced him to do what he did.
I read that book and marveled at the genius of the man. And there is not much evidence of him being a drunk, No drunk could make decisions the way he did.