Robert E. Lee was a great tactician who often prevailed or endured against superior forces. As a strategist, even allowing for Jefferson Davis' control of grand strategy, Lee was an 1815 thinker whose Napoleonic ideas were outdated. Grant & Sherman were the men of the future.
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So ignorant. So why did all the articles of secession and confederate state constitutions say Preserving Slavery was their mission and made slavery non-removable? Doc from President Jefferson Davis Inauguration- We want no Confederacy without slavery https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/we-want-no-confederacy-without-slavery/ …
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1. Lee owned slaves, fought to keep from honoring a relative's dying wish to free slaves, and had slaves beaten:https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-lee-slaveholder …
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