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

It was a cause, Ulysses S. Grant said, that “was, I believe, one of the worst for which people ever fought…”

The Confederate Constitution says expressly that slavery can NEVER be abolished. NEVER. It also decrees that any newly acquired territory is automatically slave territory.

And as for "State's rights" what hogwash.

States in the new Confederacy couldn't decide their own course.

“To the old Union they had said that the Federal power had no authority to interfere with slavery issues in a state. To their new nation they would declare that the state had no power to interfere with a federal protection of slavery.” - Historian William C. Davis

The Confederate constitution decrees that any newly acquired territory is automatically slave territory.