Also, one reason the North saw value in Lee for a century after the war was the belief that national unity & healing could be promoted by honoring a guy who told his army to go home and not form a guerrilla resistance. That didn't stop the Klan, but it saved a lot of lives.
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Jefferson Davis, on the other hand, should have been hanged.
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I knew a well-educated woman from Virginia **who worked on the Obama campaign** who insisted the civil war was caused by northern aggression and economic differences.
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We did confiscate his land and bury the troops on it, though.
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Which is not to disagree with you on the main thrust.
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Your mistake was not telling the history and defending Lee. The mistake was doing it on Twitter.
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Well he was second in his class, but other than that it’s all about right.
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As a Southerner who fought the "Rebel myth" my entire life, I think that was a mistake. Lee indeed fought and killed members of our military in order to not just preserve slavery but force it upon free/new states through the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution.
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Logic should be required for high school seniors. Logic improves the ability to make judgments. Some of the judgments I'm seeing about Lee are those which have nothing to do with being a general.
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