Robert E Lee The Great Emancipator

[Eva Elisabeth]

Brtmchl, you said: "While Lee...may not have been fighting for slavery..." I just know "the basics" about Lee (from which I would assume the same) and maybe I overread this, but I wonder what he was fighting for, Virginia? When he denied Lincoln's offer to command a Union Army he knew the Confederate's intentions were to protect, for themselves, the institution of slavery, please correct me if I'm wrong.