He was not. In fact, he was a highly regarded pro-union general of the US army before secession. It was only after his native Virginia seceded that he decided to fight for the cause of oppression. His betrayal was seen as so profound that they seized his wife’s ancestral home and began burying the war dead there. It is now known as Arlington National Cemetery…
What I didn’t know is that a portion of the property was also given over to formerly enslaved Americans.
Fuck you, Bob.
ETA: Wow, they really went out of their way to ensure that the Lees would never return:
I still think they missed an opportunity.
This is what I thought of when, as a child, I first heard the name. Perhaps it’s my autism, but I had to learn about most racial and ethnic slurs from reading, because I’d never heard them out loud (growing up in suburban Minnesota in the 60s).
They could just run around starkers and save themselves the expense of designing all new uniforms. The Washington Skins: putting a few extra balls in play. Kind of catchy, y’think?
I guess my bar is a bit higher. There could be a lot of reasons why a top Nazi might want to kill Hitler, including that he was mentally unstable and that by invading Russia he was going to destroy the whole Third Reich project and get them all killed. Were they very clearly truly renouncing Nazism? Seems like from this Wikipedia entry on the “ringleader” opinions are quite varied about that…
