Yet, armed with years of documented research, Seidule demonstrates that Lee, like Judas, was guilty of base betrayal. For even today, the image of Lee, who fought against his country to preserve slavery, is revered with monuments, parks, military bases, counties, roads, schools, ships, and universities named in his honor. in history could so persuasively mount the case against a national hero, and label him a traitor. Only a man of the South, a Virginian, and a soldier with a Ph.D. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause.įew others could write this book with such sterling credibility. Senate, Charles Sumner, who led that body’s anti-slavery forces, railed against the slaveholding Confederate general, saying: “I hand him over to the avenging pen of history.” That pen has now been wielded to dazzling effect by Ty Seidule in Robert E. When debate about the property seizure reached the U.S. Lee never returned to his home, but he sued his country for damages after the war and collected more than $4 million. Lee’s 1,100-acre estate across the Potomac from Washington, DC - and used it to headquarter federal troops. Early in the Civil War, the Union Army seized “Arlington” - Robert E.
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