[Right_Makes_Might]

Actually, Robert E. Lee had no slaves...his wife Mary Custis brought them into the marriage. Her family was one of the more influential and wealthy in the south. Robert E. Lee's sole purpose for joining the Confederacy was out of devotion to his state of Virginia. TAF

[Non-Sequitur]

Actually, Robert E. Lee had no slaves...his wife Mary Custis brought them into the marriage.

Then why did Lee sign the papers freeing them in 1862?