Trump’s characterization of the Robert E. Lee statue doesn’t jibe
Like Lee at the Appomattox Court House in 1865, they lost the battle and the war.
Many generals consider Lee ‘the greatest strategist of them all’
Like other Confederate leaders, he suffered from poor maps and unprepared staff, but he also made his own problems, wrote historian Joseph Glatthaar, who has penned numerous books on the military, including two on Lee.
‘Except for Gettysburg, (Lee) would have won the war’
Lee was ‘perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war’
Trump is correct that Lee was “ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation,” but those efforts were limited to White Americans.
Yes, he called chattel slavery a “moral & political evil,” but he also wrote, “I think…
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