Perhaps we should start a list of politically incorrect “greatest Americans.” I’ll begin by nominating Robert E. Lee, who brilliantly led the Army of Northern Virginia in its war of secession against the empire.
Virginia originally voted to stay in the union, after the lower south seceded, and re-voted (by popular vote as well as by its legislature)only after Lincoln began his invasion of the southern states. Lee turned down command of the Union Army, which was offered to him, to defend his home country against foreign invaders. He also personally liberated the slaves his wife had inherited, something Ulysses S. Grant did not get around to until he was forced to do so by the 13th Amendment in 1866.
(This should cause the politically-correct “liberventinists” to start cackling like a flock of hens).
1:59 pm on June 20, 2005
