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To: Bringbackthedraft
As far as personal integrity and brilliance I think Robert E. Lee has no equal and few close.

I know many will hate him because he fought for the Confederacy but this is what Viscount Garnet Wolseley said of Lee:

"I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in the presence of a man who was cast in a grander mold and made of different and finer metal than all other men. He is stamped upon my memory as a being apart and superior to all others in every way-a man with whom none I ever knew, and very few of whom I have read, were worthy to be classed.

BTW, Wolseley was perhaps the greatest soldier ever produced by the British Empire.

42 posted on 06/06/2005 7:45:31 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Robert E. Lee will be in the top five. Integrity and honor is his legacy.

1 George Washington
2 Robert E. Lee
3 General George Patton
4 Ronald Reagan
5 George W. Bush


52 posted on 06/06/2005 7:56:04 AM PDT by hildy123 (George Washington)
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To: yarddog

Second that! Hurrah!


58 posted on 06/06/2005 8:00:32 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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