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

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They should have been able to maintain a strategic and operational defense. Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. But Lee had to attack anything he saw - even Fort Stedman at the very end of his personal misadventure.

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The south should have disbanded its armies and fought as an unconventional insurgency, but then again, they should have also freed the slaves and tried the slave owners for enslaving other humans.

Lee isn't my hero by any means, but I don't think he was a tactical slouch either. The guy basically knew the north would outlast given an modest battle tempo, and I think he and others believed they could win a few decisive victories and then the Union would come to the table.

That was of course, wrong.