So if Lee was a traitor, so were the millions in the south who took up arms to separate. Had they won, Lee would have been a great hero..I doubt he thought he was fighting for slavery.
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The answer to the first question is yes, the millions were traitors, including many of my relatives. But most had not taken an oath to protect their country as Lee did in US Army. As to history being different if South had won, same can be said of Germany or the White Russians.
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So to call them all traitors is absurd. If the US could heroically break from Britain, the southern states were just as heroic to fight for THEIR independence against the industrial north. Slavery was not the main issue…
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Read what the states that seceded wrote in their Declarations of Causes. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states … Your disagreement is with those who seceded. They made it clear it was about slavery.
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Exactly! It's not like it was some damn secret at the time why they were seceding!
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States rights. And the survival of the southern economy, as immoral as that economy may have seemed to non slave states and seems to us today. It was about their economic and cultural survival.
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Perhaps you should research a little bit more about Lee before posting a tweet that shows you have no understanding about either Lee or the condition of the society he lived in.
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My 7X grandfather owned 14 slaves in S. Carolina. My 4x grandfather fought for the Confederacy and died at the battle of Lovejoy Station in Georgia in 1864. Stuart is right. I prefer to redeem my family history rather than adorn it with Lost Cause mythology. I'm funny that way.
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My 5x great grandfather was the holder of the second largest number of enslaved people in the US in 1860. One of his sons was a Confederate general. It’s only now in my generation that we’re coming to terms with that history. Lost Cause ideology needs to die.
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Plus Lee was never a United States general.
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So were Rommel, Guderian and Yamamoto. Great Generals serving pure evil, but even they did not wage war against their own country, against the Army that made them Generals
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President Nixon issued a statement detailing his love for traitors earlier today: https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/1121823454708236288?s=19 …
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1) Good points. 2) Not just Castro but also Gen. Giap.
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Definitely Giap. A historic talent.
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Franciso Franco (with assists from Nazis and Italian Fascists)
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I would want Giap to lead my fictional army, but Franco and Castro would both be very competent alternatives.
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Thanks Stuart for your objective comment on Lee, a West Point grad who flipped off his oath to serve his country. I have 3rd great grandfathers who served in the Union Army, one wounded at Battle of Shiloh.
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Thousands of Union Army Soldiers were not even America Citizens, many volunteered. They understood what they wanted to defend vs. where they came from.
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Why isn’t Trump saying, “I like Generals that didn’t lose”?
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