Stories don't end, except in fiction.
I spent my Freshman year as a “Rat” at VMI back in 1970. Lee was greatly honored as a man, but Jackson was at least his peer among the faculty and Cadets.
Both were great men in different ways. Their likes are increasingly rare, like the fading echos of the generation that founded our nation. Who of their stature will emerge to lead us in the upcoming conflagration?
Good men can fight well for a bad cause. Fiction? The South lost in 1865. That’s fiction? Just what is that makes all these ‘’Confederates in the Attic’’ want to re-live 1861-65?
The partnership of Lee and Jackson kept the Confederacy alive, even though its fortunes were fading from the very beginning in the West. Lee represented the Episcopalian elite of the lowlands, while Jackson represented the more Presbyterian culture of the highlands. Both were great men, and neither fought primarily to preserve slavery. They fought to defend their state against imperialist Federal forces.