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To: Rambi who wrote (56074)	10/12/2000 4:31:35 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

It is difficult for me to admire a general who continues to fight to preserve a pseudonation founded on slavery for 21 months after he had lost the war by his disaster at Gettysburg. He was a skilled soldier. He was a gentleman. But his vanity and pride and his refusal to admit that he was beaten cost the lives of hundreds of thousands soldiers on either side. He was offered the command of the Federal army in 1861. Had he defined himself as an American instead of a Virginian, I believe this world would be a much different and a much better world, but who can say. If he had quickly won the war and destroyed the Confederacy within a year or so, it would have been unnecessary and impossible for Lincoln to have ended slavery.