Article about how Gen. Lee wasn't really a great man:

[Ilsa]

Adam Serwer on the myth of the kindly General Robert E. Lee: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/?utm_source=atlfb

I never knew that much about him, but this article makes me want to tear down all of the statues, including the ones in the museums that I advocated for before. There is no reason to gaze upon this man's image.

He tore slave families apart, cruelly punished slaves who tried to run away, conscripted freed Blacks (in PA) into his army, stated that the slaves were better off as slaves here vs being free in Africa. Another Deplorable.

[brush]

1. He captured free black men in the Pennslyvannia campaigns and enslaved them

And the treated his own enslaved people harshly — not a man worthy of memorial, heroic statues.

Plus, he was a traitor.

Get rid of all the statues and rename the streets, parks and buildings.

[d_r]

2. and schools nt

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3. Absolutely.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. If you want to read a great book about Lee and the myths that surround him get "Lee Considered"

The book is by Alan Nolan. This book presents Lee not as a myth but a real person. Many Civil War historians sympathetic to the Lost Cause hate this book and Nolan for writing it.

Nolan was an Indianapolis lawyer and Civil War expert.

[bdjhawk]

5. I went to my father's military reunion in Texas

and remember being absolutely stunned when we visited Ft Hood and learned that is was named after a CONFEDERATE general. When I looked it up after, there are several United States military bases named after them. Disgusting

[Ilsa]

6. Yeah, I learned that only a few years ago.

I wish they would change the names of those bases. Ft. Hood is too big to get shut down by BRAC.