... The Myth of the Kindly General Lee The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed ADAM SERWER
... Lee was a devout Christian, and historians regard him as an accomplished tactician. But despite his ability to win individual battles, his decision to fight a conventional war against the more densely populated and industrialized North is considered by many historians to have been a fatal strategic error ... https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...l_hps_59974c174c2b213f32f2bdbc&CNDID=49183601
What Confederate Monument Builders Were Thinking Southern leaders made it clear that statues were part of their early-20th-century effort "to establish white supremacy" By
Justin Fox
... These monuments, then, were to a large extent political statements, akin to the statements that John Knox made at the beginning of the 1901 convention. They were a big "in your face" from newly confident Southern whites to their black neighbors and to the Northern states that won the Civil War ... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/arti...paign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo
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