Most American soldiers respected Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel. He was even called the Desert Fox, out of respect. It is well known that he treated his prisoners of war humanely, and he ignored orders to kill any captured Jews. If I can have respect for a German soldier like Rommel, why the hell can I not respect Lee?
Kind of like nazi diplomat John Rabe who saved a lot of Chinese from Japanese massacre at Nanking.
They even made a movie on Rommel who was played by heart throb James Mason!
Ignorance? Read about him, like you did Rommel. There is much there to this phenomenal leader and human being. Clearly evident that Lee was arrived at by Davis quite late— too late really. And Lee had courtesy toward Davis but not his leadership decisions.
Rommel was implicated in the plot on Hitler, hence his “suicide”. Rommel was a superior trained fighting soldier. And Hitler... a lunatic wannabe artist.