Robert_E._Lee_As_Symbol

Robert E. Lee As Symbol Why Robert E. Lee Became the Symbol of the South During the 19th century, Robert E. Lee, through strategic brilliance and inspired leadership, turned the Confederate States of America from a defenseless military nation into a viable threat to the Union. Lee represented the South admirably with his innovations in maneuver and military defense, which allowed him to gain victory consistently against superior forces. His distinctive leadership earned Lee loyalty and affection from his soldiers and Southern compatriots. A great general and a great man, Robert E. Lee was an American hero as well as a fitting symbol of the South. Lee’s devotion and loyalty to his native state of Virginia, which caused him to side with the Confederacy, made him a symbol of the South. A perfect example of this faithfulness occurred during the onset of the Civil War. On the eve of the war, President Lincoln along with Secretary Francis Blair offered Lee control of the Union Army. Even though he was opposed to secession and considered slavery “evil”, he politely declined the offer. Lee believed the Southern states were protecting the very liberty, freedom, and legal principles for which George Washington had left the British Empire. lee, war, south, robert, lee’s, though, symbol, military, made, leadership, great, confederacy, union, southern, soldiers, side, nose, man, loyalty, hero, general, fighting, family, even, during, civil, believed, american, very, strategic, states, skills, seen, revealed, respect, people