![]() ![]() ![]() A substantial look into Lee’s own letters and public opinions on slaves and freedmen offers the strongest refutation of this supposed benevolence Lee favored extreme racial inequality, though he did argue against the “theory” of slavery. Though Lee was reluctant at first to take the oath of loyalty to the United States that Johnson required for amnesty, he finally did upon becoming president of Washington College so as to “set an example of submission to authority.” By 1900, he was a popular, even heroic, figure in both the South and the North. Grant, who enjoyed rising popularity as a magnanimous war hero, publicly argued for amnesty for his former rival. After the end of the Civil War, Tennessee-born President Andrew Johnson and members of Congress vehemently argued in favor of indicting and executing Confederate leaders, while Ulysses S. Lee and the reasons he was given amnesty after the Civil War. In this well-crafted narrative, Reeves demystifies the Confederate general Robert E. ![]()
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