Here's what Robert E. Lee thought about Confederate monuments

Robert E. Lee opposed Confederate monuments | PBS News

“I think it wiser,” the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to ...

Here's Why Robert E. Lee Opposed Confederate Monuments - Time

While we'll never know what he would think about efforts to remove Confederate monuments (of which there are 700 Confederate statues and ...

Robert E. Lee was against erecting Confederate memorials - CNN

“I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil ...

Memorialization of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause - Arlington ...

The complex relationship between Robert E. Lee and memorials began in Lee's lifetime. He argued against creating Confederate war monuments on ...

Here's what Robert E. Lee thought about Confederate monuments

Lee himself, after the Civil War, opposed monuments, specifically Confederate war monuments," Jonathan Horn, a Lee biographer, told PBS.

Robert E. Lee Opposed Confederate Monuments - Business Insider

"Lee believed countries that erased visible signs of civil war recovered from conflicts quicker," Horn told PBS. "He was worried that by keeping ...

Robert E. Lee opposed constructing monuments to the Confederacy ...

Lee thought that any illustration commemorating the division, both immediately after the war, or on any future occasion, would not serve the re- ...

How did Robert E. Lee feel about Confederate monuments? - WTOP

Old letters from Gen. Robert E. Lee reveal he opposed symbols, such as the statues to confederate figures, that protesters are calling to be ...

The Robert E. Lee Monument (Richmond, Virginia). 2013, 2020, and ...

He didn't want any Confederate statues. Ostensibly for the sake of healing the country; in truth, I think he harbored some bitterness against ...

Was Robert E. Lee Opposed to Confederate Monuments?

On the question of erecting Civil War monuments, the former Confederate general wrote that he thought it wiser 'not to keep open the sores ...

Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee! - UVA Press

Let me take up here one particular myth about Lee that those defending Confederate monuments have pushed recently to show that monuments don't teach history— ...

Robert E. Lee's descendant says taking down Confederate symbols ...

Robert E. Lee's descendant says taking down Confederate symbols a 'no-brainer' · MORE: Here's where Confederate statues and memorials have been ...

I've studied the history of Confederate memorials. Here's what to do ...

The debate over Confederate monuments has been framed by President Donald Trump — and some who share his views — as a fight between those ...

Robert E. Lee Monuments Are Symbols of the Neo-Confederacy

They weren't. They were monuments to the neo-Confederacy that dominated the South and national race relations up until and in some respect ...

Confederate monuments: What the men honored by statues did and ...

While Lee believed slavery was morally wrong, he did not believe the abolition of it should come through the works of man, but, instead, the ...

Complicated History: The Memorial to Robert E. Lee in Richmond

Contemporary criticism of the monuments, from Northerners and Black Southerners alike, mainly focused on the argument that these massive ...

Opinion: Don't Take Down Confederate Monuments. Here's Why.

The people who hated having black classmates at their school didn't hate us because there were statues of Robert E. Lee or George Washington ( ...

Cornerstone Contributions: Black Richmonders, the Lee Monument ...

At the intersection of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as communities reassess who and what they memorialize, Confederate monuments ...

Are there still Confederate memorials of Robert E. Lee and ... - Quora

From the Southern Poverty Law Center: Robert E. Lee is removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue on September 8, 2021, in Richmond, ...

The descendants of Lee, Jackson and Davis want the Confederate ...

Robert E. Lee condemned last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and said it might be “appropriate” for Confederate statues to be ...