![]() ![]() Army soldiers, and violated Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. “It’s an easy call,” he writes at the end of his stunning book, “because Lee resigned his commission, fought against his country, killed U.S. 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. and used it to headquarter federal troops. Lee’s 1,100-acre estate across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. WITH SEARING HONESTY, A RETIRED SOLDIER/PROFESSOR COMES TO TERMS WITH HIS LIFELONG WORSHIP OF A TRAITORĮarly in the Civil War, the Union Army seized “Arlington” - Robert E. ![]()
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