Robert E Lee The Great Emancipator

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I'm sure that there will be some on this forum who will say that I cannot provide documentation for the following story, and they are right. I can only say that I heard it first from family members and then from a Yankee professor at college:

Shortly after his surrender and return to his family, Gen. Lee attended Sunday morning services. When it came time for communion, an elderly black gentleman rose and walked slowly to the altar rail and knelt down. No other person in the church got out of their seats, even though the priest waited for others to follow. Shortly, Robert E. Lee left his pew and walked to the rail and knelt beside the newly freed man. They received communion side by side from the same chalice.

As Bill Richter says, "If it didn't happen that way, it should have!" Parable or truth, we can all learn from it.