Introduction: Reevaluating Robert E. Lee
1“I am aware of having done nothing wrong & cannot flee.”
2“They shall suffer for this, they shall suffer for this.”
3“Hands dripping with the blood of slaughtered innocents.”
4“When can these men be tried?”
5“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”
6“. . . rather as a demon than a man.”
7“There is General Lee, as hungry for the gallows as Davis.”
9“It used to be fashionable to try a man before they hanged him.”
10“. . . this noble man died ‘a prisoner of war on parole.’ ”
11“. . . you gentleman that use the pen should see that justice is done us.”