GDG- Lee's Circle

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/15/2007 9:25:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rpielke at ca.rr.com writes:

On the  other hand, Lee was a complex person -- not wanting secession and 
finding  slavery morally repugnant..and after the war, being the the first one in 
the  church he attended to take communion with a former  slave.




Well, yes, but when you track back to the primary source for that incident,  
you find that it is presented as a picture of Lee disdainfully ignoring the  
former slave and pretending that the ex-slave is not even there.  It is by  no 
means certain that the incident ever even occurred.  

Bruce  Trinque
Amston, CT




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