[BroJoeK]

jmacusa: " I’ve always held that from from being a ‘’military genius’’ Lee was an absolute idiot as well as a traitor. "

I'm not anti-Lee, my opinion on him is similar to that of President Eisenhower, sometimes quoted on these threads.
I think Lee's sometimes overrated and would point to another Virginia General as much underrated -- Thomas, the Rock of Chicamagua.
And everything you say about Lee can be said about any Confederate leader, but all that was forgiven in exchange for Unconditional Surrender, in 1865.

I think it was a good bargain.
Much of my family is Southern, so I know the pro-Confederates who post here are far from a majority in the South.

[jmacusa]

My great-great grandfather(my mothers side) served in The Army Of The Potomac, 1864-65. I was born and raised in the northeastern New Jersey town of Kearny. Named for it’s most famous local son Union General Phil Kearny. Guess that makes me a Yankee.