Robert e lee fun facts

Robert Edward Lee was an American general who was commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In the time since his death, General Lee’s legacy continues to prove divisive and contradictory.

On one hand, he is regarded as having been an effective and principled strategist who worked relentlessly to reunify the country after the bloodshed of the American Civil War.

On the other hand, though he privately remarked that slavery was a ‘moral and political evil’, he never outwardly condemned it.

In fact, Lee married into one of the biggest slave-owning families in Virginia, where he did not free the enslaved people, but instead actively encouraged cruelty towards them and wrote that God alone would be responsible for their emancipation.

Here are 10 facts about one of the United States’ most famous and polarising historical figures.

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Lee was born into an aristocratic Virginian family

The Lee family was synonymous with power in th