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Historian Allen C. Guelzo on Hard Choices and Robert E. Lee

The Daily Stoic

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Confederate Government, a Master of Denial

"He is a master of denial. And the funny thing is, the denial pays its its evil dividends all through the war in his life," he says. Lee becomes this advocate for recruiting black slaves as confederate soldiers and emancipating them and their families. "This is such a zag that if if he could have gotten there earlier, he would have spared himself the whole cine."

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