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

The Daily Stoic

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The Lost Cause, by Robert E Lee

The son of an army officer, how do we explain this guy becoming a lifelong fixture, fascination, hero of the current us? Lee himself once again zigzags in the years after the war. He actively resists any attempts to join in confederate reminiscence a events. When he's written to by thomas rossiter, one of his old cavalry officers, about a project for erecting a monument to the confederates, he he actually says to rossiter: Don't don't bother with this kind of thing. This is only going to make for ill feeling between the sections.

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