Lee's greatest act of the Civil War was to accept Grant's offer of surrender at Gettysburg.
Lee could have ordered his troops to go guerrilla and they would have followed him to the final man. Lee did the honest math and made the magnanimous decision to end the fighting and spare anymore of his troops.
If Lee had rejected Grant's offer, the war between the states could have gone on for another 50 years. Lee should be celebrated as one of America's greatest generals, not this...
IIRC, Gen. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, not the end of Confederate resistance but its death knell.
Gettysburg had been a strategic defeat for Lee, the highwater mark of the Confederacy.
Anyway, W & L has done a shameful cave-in to a handful of malcontents. People on all sides can honor the Confederate fallen & those who led them, very few of whom owned slaves.
It the university prez had stood his ground & thumbed his nose at Al Sharpton, the malcontents would have been surrounded by thousands of patriots, had they chosen to demonstrate.