Yet we always honored him, until this new, post sixties, doper America.
Dixie Ping
Many people today forget that States prior to the Civil War were viewed much differently than they are today. There wasn’t nearly as much sense of Nationalism as we have now. We didn’t even have a national currency at the time, like every other country on the planet.
Robert E. Lee was especially reluctant to join the other U.S. officers who resigned to join the confederacy. He was tempted by Lincoln’s offer to command the Union Army. Yet he could not persuade himself to raise his hand against Virginia.
I think Lee would of had no problems lighting a cigar with the Constitution of the Confederacy, but when he saw his state was in the cross hairs of the Army of the Potomac, what else could he do?