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There were Virginian officers who stayed loyal to their country. Lee didn’t and he chose wrong.  He also wasn’t ordered to join the confederacy, he was offered a position and took it.  He could have sat it out but didn’t. [/quote]

And you could have refrained from offering this obtuse and off-topic commentary, but you chose not to. :roll:

(There were also generals from Northern states who enlisted for the Confederacy (for example, Pemberton)  but, you know, people looking for nuance don't know history.)

I guess you are right.  Might makes right.  Any opinion not matching the victors must be utterly eviscerated.  You know, freedom of thought and all that.[/quote]

DP. I’m not defending the confederacy- but I think actually knowing the correct history is important (those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, yada yada I think it goes) and it’s not an accurate understanding of history to consider Lee a traitor. Then you will never understand why he was so revered here - it’s because he was the exact opposite to VA. I’m not defending him or the confederacy but trying to give the background for understanding and hopefully learning. [/quote]

He’s revered here because of an attempted rewriting of history called “The Lost Cause”, often referred to as “nuance” by those with a confederate fetish.  He was a traitor, and a racial supremacist. The argument that he was loyal to his state is hog wash. He was from a privileged Virginia family who lived the privileged Southern life, which included having slaves. There were members of his extended family that rejected the confederacy, he did not have the morals or courage to do so. Other Virginian officers weren’t traitors.[/quote]

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