[Crim]

Did he wear gray and fight for the Democrat confederacy to defend the institution of slavery?

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Lee didn’t even own slaves. He was a supporter of gradual abolition, and fought for the right of self-determination. He wasn’t alone. 80% of confederate soldiers didn’t even own slaves. They were fighting for self determination and to protect their hearths and homes.

[re_nortex]

General Robert E. Lee fought for the Tenth Amendment. The ultimate outcome was positive since, today, the former Confederate States are the most God-fearing, liberty-loving, pro-gun, anti-hussein region of America.

Today, the foundation set by Forrest, Davis, Lee and other champions of state's rights has resulted in Dixie rising to lead the rest of the nation. It's the job creator of America with freedom enshrined by strong Right-to-Work laws, near universal gun ownership and high church attendance. The Solid South is back as evidenced by its repudiation of the illegal regime that seized power in 2008. Only Virgina and Florida are apart because of a Yankee invasion of ultra-leftwing DemonRATs who relocated from their northern socialist cesspools.

I have no doubts that the brave men of the Confederacy would oppose the hussein/holder duo with every fiber of their being were these gentlemen with us today.

[Repulican Donkey]

No, he wore gray to defend a state’s right to withdraw freely from a union it entered freely. The right to secede was taught at West Point. The states made the union, not the other way around. The south didn’t fight to keep slavery nor did the north fight to abolish it.

[rfreedom4u]

The Southern states did not fight to solely defend the institution of slavery. In fact they fought for states’ rights. The issue of slavery was NOT among the main causes of the war.

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did NOT end slavery. It in fact only ended it in the states that were “in rebellion.” Lincoln said that if he could preserve the Union by freeing every slave he would do it, but if he could preserve it and not free any he would do that too. His main goal was to preserve the Union, not end slavery.