re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"

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The 7 day campaign, Manassas, and Chancellorsville, were all to get the Union out of Virginia

But they were still offensive operations.

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Lee gets this rep as a great general, best ever and blah blah blah. His army lost more men every day of the Seven Days battle than the federals did. If you have ¼ the man power of your opponent is that how you win the war?

I don’t know what Lee was thinking, but did he realize that his army was fragile? That is could collapse as quickly as it formed? The so-called CSA was basically anti-government. Sound familiar? That is what Ol’ Jeff Davis said – “Died of a theory.” Did Lee know that he had to act quickly or lose the whole thing? In that case he could be forgiven for pursuing a policy that would ultimately wreck his army for offensive operations - which by 7/4/63, he had done.

On both his incursions into the loyal territory in 1862 and 1863 Lee was forced to come and steal and pillage from the loyal citizens because the government in Richmond and in the states was so anti-government it wouldn’t feed the Army! So Lee needs some consideration there. He couldn’t fight the defensive war he needed to because the nature of the men and the nation was severely wanting.