[PistolPaknMama]

As for Lee, he said he disliked slavery but thought it necessary, unavoidable and beneficial for the time being and for years to come. If all opponents of slavery were like him, there might still be slaves and slaveholders in the US.

Yes but Lee freed his slaves when he left to serve in the Army of Northern VA. Grant still held his slaves until they were freed by Constitutional amendment in 1867 (not by the "emancipation" proclamation.)

[WhiskeyPapa]

Yes but Lee freed his slaves when he left to serve in the Army of Northern VA.

That is a lie.

Lee freed no slave until the very last minute --as required-- by the terms of the will of his father in law that he was executing. That date was at the end of 1862.

Walt