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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted peacful separation

      I'm 47 and went to school in New York, New Jersey & Massachusetts, and that's more or less how Lee was still taught all the way through college. We're clearer-eyed today, but I'd guess a lot of not-on-Twitter Americans still believe this.https://twitter.com/robert_dunaway/status/1121823678315008001 …

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      peacful separation @robert_dunaway
      Replying to @SWGoldman @baseballcrank
      Intend reply for @DamonLinker I’m 50. Was taught Lee 1st in his class West Point. Excellent military mind. Honorable man. Loyal to Virginia & that’s why he turned down Lincoln’s request to command Union forces. Internally conflicted re: war. The word “traitor” was never used.
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019

      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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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2019

      Jefferson Davis, on the other hand, should have been hanged.

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        2. Neil Stevens‏ @presjpolk 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Last I researched I couldn't tell. Did he personally give the order to fire on Ft. Sumter or not?

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        3. Neil Stevens‏ @presjpolk 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @presjpolk @baseballcrank

          If so, you could make a case against him in the post-Kellogg-Briand world as a criminal against peace. Not sure what the argument would have been then.

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        1. Justin‏ @KeystoneObsrvr 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          A reason Lincoln basically stated he certainly wouldn’t mind if Davis conveniently escaped abroad so there wouldn’t be a circus in figuring out what to do with him.

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        2. Santi Malcolm‏ @SantiWest100 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Stop your revisionism. Lee owned slaves, fought to defend slavery, tortured slavery, captured new slaves. He's as evil as Hitler, Mao, Stalin. This is why GOP have no credibility on race issues. All the excuses for the past. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ …

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        3. MrQuaverley‏ @MrQuaverley 27 Apr 2019
          Replying to @SantiWest100 @baseballcrank

          Obviously, you have no sense of proportion. Hitler, Mao, and Stalin were orders of magnitude worse than Lee, with fewer redeeming characteristics.

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        1. "Doctor" Quixotic Prescient Analysis‏ @DARogers2010 26 Apr 2019
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          Why?

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        1. George Purcell‏ @gpurcell 26 Apr 2019
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          Way I've come to look at it (I also got the same basic education) is that out great-grandparents had to come to some understandings to overcome the trauma of the Civil War. But those understandings died with them--we're under no obligation to continue the charade.

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        1. Gene Cronin‏ @EJCII 26 Apr 2019
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          He made war against The United States so that “ his “ Virginia could leave the Union and preserve slavery. It was not honorable and in fact was Reprehensible. His “talent” as a general prolonged a war that was not winnable,bringing more death. He should be vilified.

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        2. Arguably Wrong‏ @arguablywrong 26 Apr 2019
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          Nah, Davis was a chucklehead and completely useless to the hardliners after the war. Would have been more useful as a martyr to the cause. Should have hanged Wade Hampton and Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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        3. Arguably Wrong‏ @arguablywrong 26 Apr 2019
          Replying to @arguablywrong @baseballcrank

          Plenty of justification for both of them, too. On top of the treason, they were both straight-up murderers. (Forrest murdered surrendering black Union troops and their white officers, Hampton murdered deserting Confederate soldiers.)

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