Robert E. Lee's Loyalty to the South

Abstract: A 5 page paper discussing Robert E. Lee's motivations for declining President Lincoln's offer of command of the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War. There is no question that Robert E. Lee was a master of military strategy and that he was a man of the Southern tradition of honor. That he would cast his lot with the South rather than to be disloyal to his native Virginia is testament to the depth of his commitment. Lee knew going into the war and upon resigning his commission with the US army that he was joining a losing proposition, but he chose what appeared to him to be the side of personal honor, rather than that of political loyalty. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

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Catagory: U.S. History

Subcatagory: History

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