[Terabitten]

Your old home if not destroyed by our enemies has been so desecrated that I cannot bear to think of it," he writes. "I should have preferred it to have been wiped from the earth, its beautiful hill sunk, its sacred trees burned rather than to have been degraded by the presence of those who revel in the ill they do for their own selfish purposes."

It's kind of interesting that General Lee's estate has become the closest thing we have to sacred ground in America. I think he'd be proud of it today.

[Badeye]

‘It’s kind of interesting that General Lee’s estate has become the closest thing we have to sacred ground in America. I think he’d be proud of it today.’

Given his view of the ‘sacred ground of home, Virginia’ I doubt it.

He’d still be infuriated they turned his ancestrial home into a graveyard, no matter how it was justified after the fact.