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Robert E Lee
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Robert E Lee
The life and influences of family and career of the Southern General in the Civil War.
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"By means of an unusual combination of circumstances and personal abilities Robert E. Lee (1807-70), more than any man in American history, earned a simultaneous reputation as a hero and a traitor. On the surface, of course, this is easily explained by the fact that he left the United States army to eventually become the commander of the Confederate forces. But Lee was also a general who did not believe war was a solution to political problems, a hero of the secessionists who held that secession was unconstitutional, the son of a hero of the American Revolution who worked hard to break the country apart, and a born aristocrat who believed that the Union, despite its Jeffersonian ideals of democracy, should be kept intact. It was Lee's fate, however, to be "the best representative of the aristocratic principle in all American history," which meant that he was loyal to the system..."More papers on Robert E Lee:
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