GDG- RE: Pipe Creek

[Margaret D. Blough]

I've read elsewhere that, after his death, Lee's family and supporters edited any letters that were published in order to eliminate anything that interfered with the Lee as saint image and did not indicate that the letters had been edited.  It wasn't that there was anything truly awful in the omitted portions of the letters, just anything that indicated the existence of a complex human being and not a living saint.

Regards,

Margaret

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> >>Lee, however, also wanted to use deception, and proposed to Davis that the 
> > South pretend they were interested in peace for the purposes of 
> restoration 
> > of the Union, when if fact the South had no such intention of reuniting 
> with 
> > the Northern states. This, he believed, would mislead the Northern faction 
> > that was demanding peace together with reunification, causing them to 
> > support an end to the war. << 
> 
> <> study: "Robert E. Lee: Marble Man or Machiavelli in Gray?">> 
> 
> Margaret, 
> 
> It does have a Machiavellian flavor to it, and, Lee's phrasing of how it 
> should be done is so matter-of-fact, you hardly notice he is proposing a 
> duplicitous activity. 
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, the new book by Elizabeth Brown Pryor titled 
> "Reading the Man" provides a much more in depth look at Lee's personality. 
> My review of it will be published in the Washington Times soon. 
> 
> Regards, Tom 
> 
> 
> 
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