(06-19-2020, 08:38 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-19-2020, 07:40 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I dunno... everything he did after the Civil War?

[Testifying to Congress in 1866,] Lee forthrightly opposed allowing blacks to vote: "My own opinion is that, at this time, they [black Southerners] cannot vote intelligently, and that giving them the [vote] would lead to a great deal of demagogism, and lead to embarrassments in various ways."[font=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee#cite_note-137][/font]

In an interview in May 1866, Lee said: "The Radical party are likely to do a great deal of harm, for we wish now for good feeling to grow up between North and South, and the President, Mr. Johnson, has been doing much to strengthen the feeling in favor of the Union among us. The relations between the Negroes and the whites were friendly formerly, and would remain so if legislation be not passed in favor of the blacks, in a way that will only do them harm."[

From your same Wikipedia page.

Quote:When Virginia's 1861 Richmond Convention declared secession from the Union, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his desire for the country to remain intact and an offer of a senior Union command.

In 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; in that position, he supported reconciliation between North and South. He accepted "the extinction of slavery" provided for by the Thirteenth Amendment, but opposed racial equality for African Americans and died in 1870.

Your selective history regarding Robert E Lee and Andrew Jackson is clearly biased to fit your narrative.

Answer this.  Andrew Jackson owned hundreds of slaves that worked a large cotton plantation in the south.  Which side of the Civil War do you think he would have supported and why?

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