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In the June 1969 issue of Civil War History — Volume 5, Number 2, pages 116-132 — a renowned Southern historian attacked the legacy of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
"No single war figure stands in greater need of reevaluation than Lee," wrote Thomas L. Connelly, the late University of South Carolina professor. "One ponders whether the South may not have fared better had it possessed no Robert E. Lee."
Connelly's essay was among the first academic musket shots fired on Lee's standing as an outmatched but not outwitted military genius presiding over a Lost Cause — a reputation celebrated in fawning biographies and monuments like the one removed Friday in New Orleans.
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The Truth About Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee: He Wasn’t Very Good at His Job
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 13 2017, @05:22PM
typical yankee believing whoever's own self righteous propaganda. the not-so-original do gooders. killing people to help them. freeing the slaves so you can lock them up in ghettos and let them kill themselves like animals, all the while lecturing the widows in the south for daring to be free from your falsely adopted idealism. this was a war for control, trade, money. slaves were just a form of money that was in various stages of being phased out around the world. the north took advantage of the fact that they could get by with only pseudo slavery to further their domination of the south. the slavery propaganda also conveniently kept the french from joining the war on the side of the south. like the rest of the history of the world, written by the winners and full of BS.