gary
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- Feb 20, 2005
My attempt to write an essay of less than 200 words.
Robert E. Lee was loyal to the Union, however, his loyalty to his state was stronger and it was with difficulty that he resigned his commission and turned down an offer to command the Union Army. After the war, he told his soldiers to become good citizens and to serve the Union as well as they had the Confederacy. He is not the flawless demi-god that the Southern Lost Cause proponents made him out to be. He owned slaves (as did most plantation owners) and signed their papers of manumission only after his plantation in Arlington was captured. However, I can find no truer picture of a Christian Gentleman than Robert E. Lee. When one Confederate officer saw the Union Army parading across the river, he said he wish that they could throw a hundred shells among them and kill them all. Lee responded, "Oh no, do not wish that. Wish that they were all at their homes with their friends and that they would stay there."
Robert E. Lee was loyal to the Union, however, his loyalty to his state was stronger and it was with difficulty that he resigned his commission and turned down an offer to command the Union Army. After the war, he told his soldiers to become good citizens and to serve the Union as well as they had the Confederacy. He is not the flawless demi-god that the Southern Lost Cause proponents made him out to be. He owned slaves (as did most plantation owners) and signed their papers of manumission only after his plantation in Arlington was captured. However, I can find no truer picture of a Christian Gentleman than Robert E. Lee. When one Confederate officer saw the Union Army parading across the river, he said he wish that they could throw a hundred shells among them and kill them all. Lee responded, "Oh no, do not wish that. Wish that they were all at their homes with their friends and that they would stay there."