“Making the mostly Nazi population the first in the state to do so.”
Give me a freaking break from this yellow journalism.
These were 3 of the best generals fighting to preserve their ideas of the Republic. Lee himself spent the years after the civil war trying to reunify the country.
They fought against the Republic of the United States. Lee deserves honor for the way he surrendered and you are right, he worked to reunify the Country.
Taking up arms against a duly government in order to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor are the ideals of our Republic?
No shit. The Nazi’s kinda had the same philosophy. The Confederacy and the Nazis were leftists.