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To: GregoTX

Actually, he fought for both. Robert E. Lee was a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican-American War.


53 posted on 07/03/2015 12:17:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for jumping in with the correct info on Gen. Lee’s full service record. Historical ignorance abounds in this controversy and it seems FR is not immune, unfortunately.


60 posted on 07/03/2015 2:55:26 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, he fought for both. Robert E. Lee was a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican-American War.

I think he was in Union Blue at Harpers Ferry as well but I could be wrong about that

61 posted on 07/03/2015 3:12:41 AM PDT by Cowman (As Jerry Williams used to say --- When comes the revolution....)
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