Seriously, here is why I care about General Lee.

My great-great-grandfather, James Harrison Young, a private in the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, was captured at the skirmish at High Bridge, three days before Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. He was a POW being held in the vicinity at the time of the surrender. I don't know whether my ancestor actually ever saw the General, but given the circumstances, I think it was likely. Some folks can't understand the connection that educated people like me have to the Confederacy. I'm not a white supremacist looney. I simply refuse to dismiss the sacrifice of my ancestors, regardless of the rightness of their cause.