Robert E. Lee's Loyalty to the South
Number of pages:
5
ABSTRACT:
A 5 page paper discussing Robert E. Lee's motivations
for declining President Lincoln's offer of command of the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil
War. There is no question that Robert E. Lee was a master of military strategy and that he was a
man of the Southern tradition of honor. That he would cast his lot with the South rather than to
be disloyal to his native Virginia is testament to the depth of his commitment. Lee knew going
into the war and upon resigning his commission with the US army that he was joining a losing
proposition, but he chose what appeared to him to be the side of personal honor, rather than that
of political loyalty. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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