EP. 01 Robert E. Lee
Uncancelled History
Robert E. Lee's Hope for the Civil War
Robert E. Lee is living in this position of almost an American aristocrat or a sort of inheritor of a lineage of a kind of going back to the founding of the country. He sees the war coming, first of all. If you look back at his letters, he doesn't totally see it coming. And how does it come about? Well, it does come about that Abraham Lincoln wins election with no votes south in the south and states begin to secede from the country.
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