Interesting- and Lee was by no means one of the worst- it's easily forgotten that Lincoln wanted him at the head of Union forces, but he went with his own state.
Just shows the divisive nature or civil war I guess.
We had ours two hundred years earlier and it still divides opinion.
When they put up the statue to Cromwell outside parliament all hell broke loose and it created some very strange bedfellows indeed!
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Date: 2017-08-19 12:50 pm (UTC)Just shows the divisive nature or civil war I guess.
We had ours two hundred years earlier and it still divides opinion.
When they put up the statue to Cromwell outside parliament all hell broke loose and it created some very strange bedfellows indeed!