Robert E. Lee, Rock Star

[Bill Richter]

Take a look at how the men cheer him in "Gettysburg" the film. And the many "Lee to the rear" incidents when he rode forward to lead a counterattack at a critical monument--as he did after Pickett';s charge when it was feared a Yankee counter attack might be coming. At the Wilderness, the Texas Brigade refused to move until Lee rode to the rear, then it launched an attack the stopped the Yankee onslaught. He was a rock star for the time. . .