R.E. Lee betrayed his nation, the United States of America, at a time when the nation most needed him
Lee was not a "traitor to his country". Lee considered his country to be Virginia. When Virginia seceded, Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission and followed Virginia. People in the U.S.A. tend to forget that the U.S. States were "States" in the truest sense of the word. At the time of the Civil War, people did not consider a "State" to be merely a division of the U.S.A.
And why pick Lee to put on the list out of the entire confederacy? And no, Lee did not command "the entire southern forces". He only commanded the Army of Northern Virginia; and that was only after its commander was gravely wounded. The author chose to include the most beloved and respected general out of the entire war. Where was John Wilkes Booth on the list? The list was total BS.
On Aug 5, 1975, President Gerald Ford reinstated Robert E. Lee as a citizen of the US in good standing when Lee’s Oath of Allegiance was found in the National Archives (it had been “lost” since October of 1865 when Lee requested a pardon from the Johnson administration.
President Ford stated, “General Lee’s character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.”
I’m Canadian and even I know that the civil war should of been called the war of northern aggression. You’re either trolling, or have no idea about history.