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