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Robert E. Lee: Answering His Critics

Robert E. Lee: Answering His Critics

Of late, Confederate General Robert E. Lee has been disparaged as just another racist slave owner. But that is blatantly false. ...
Steve Byas

Of late, Confederate General Robert E. Lee has been disparaged as just another racist slave owner. But that is blatantly false.

Confederate General Patrick Cleburne died many years before the rise of the Taliban and their efforts to destroy the monuments and symbols of their enemies. But Cleburne did accurately predict the Taliban-like efforts to alter the history of the Civil War.

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by our enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

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