Maybe a great southern gentleman but not an American if he wanted to keep the southern way of life of slavery. Just saying.
Haven’t you learned?
You don’t talk bad about Bobby Lee, and the war wasn’t about slavery.
Those are unwritten rules here on FR.
Good luck with the onslaught coming your way. I would simply let it flow over you like a tsunami.
Lee followed VA because he felt that honor and duty dictated it. If VA had NOT voted to secede he would have commanded Union troops. Who is more American, any living liberal (also opposed to slavery) or Lee?
By your standard, Washington and Jefferson are not Americans. You have been brainwashed by revisionist history.
Agreed. Lee was a murderous traitor and nothing will remove that fact.
That was NOT his reason for fighting....He was true to his state of Virginia first and last and hence ended up in the Confederacy rather than the Union
He was opposed to both slavery and secession. He was stationed in Texas when the state seceded to join the Confederacy. Most of the troops there joined the Southern cause, but Lee left immediately for Washington, D.C.
The decision to take command of the Confederate army was very difficult for him, but came down to state sovereignty and family heritage. He had family on both sides of the cause.
At the time of the Civil War, one's state carried a lot of weight. There was still a belief among many that the USA was a confederation of separate soverign stares. It was not unusual to have more loyalty to one's state over the Federal government. I think I remember reading somewhere that Jefferson's greatest source of pride was having been President of...Virginia. Lee's loyalty to Virginia is something that people simply cannot grasp now that the Fderal government grabs every bit of sovereignty it can.