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Robert E. Lee opposed construction of Confederate monuments
by Anthony Leonardi, Breaking News Reporter
 | June 13, 2020 11:23 AM


Robert E. Lee, who led the Army of Northern Virginia through the Civil War, opposed the construction of monuments commemorating the vanquished Confederacy.

Within the past week, NASCAR announced a ban on the Confederate flag, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi renewed calls to have Confederate statues removed from the Capitol, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted anything named after Lee in his city "has to go," and thousands of protesters across the country tore down Confederate monuments. After the Civil War, Lee repeatedly voiced his objection to statues or monuments that honor the Confederacy.

Lee's underlying rationale behind opposing the monuments was Southern reconciliation with the Union, hoping to quell further sentiments of rebellion in the aftermath of the Civil War.

"As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated; my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; & of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour," Lee wrote in an 1866 letter to Thomas Rosser, a former Confederate general.

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