[kiryandil]

So it appears that this historian you consider "awesome" believed that the south started the war because of slavery and that Lee never believed it could stand on its own without foreign help.

I suppose if I was a Southern aficionado, that single paragraph out of the many, many, many other paragraphs that young Adams wrote might bother me.

I don't see how your brief snippet lessens the might of Charles Adams' paean to the greatness and Character of Robert E. Lee. :)

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I suppose if I was a Southern aficionado, that single paragraph out of the many, many, many other paragraphs that young Adams wrote might bother me.

But that's not you, right?