[John S Mosby]

Agreed. He is a fascinating man, a tragic story of lost gentility and subject to the applied standards and judgments of the current day by puritan revisionists. Something always sticks in my memory of Lee. In the last year of his life with his heart condition worsening (it having evidenced itself dramatically during Gettysburg- forensic history has explored this), Lee went to Cumberland Island, GA to visit the grave of his father.

Light Horse Harry Lee- Revolutionary War hero,gambler, debtor who bankrupted the family but who also was a man of great learning who taught his son well. Robert made his peace with his father who died shipboard returning from -Barbados from the horrible wounds he got defending a publisher friend against an anti-federalist, pro-war of 1812 mob in Baltimore. It is quite poignant that Robert spent his last years re-writing his father's memoirs and not his own. Deo Vindice.

[varina davis]

Thank you for the post and Deo Vindice. 8th Florida, Company B, Hardy’s Brigade CSA