Mauser
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For the most part, history has been kind to Robert E. Lee and his role as the commanding General of the Confederate Army. There is very little criticism for the man who led the South against the Union but is that because Lee was truly a great man or is it because no one has dared to be critical of such a wildly popular southern gentleman?
I don't know how you could fault a man for fighting for the principles embodied in the Constitution at that time.
IMO, it was the north that had failed to live up to them and gave the south little choice but to fight.