They Called Him General Robert E. Lee

I guess it is not common knowledge as to what General E. Lee looks like (in bronzed bust form).


A bit of history


In 1861 President Lincoln tried to recruit Lee to lead the Union forces, however Lee found himself declining the offer due to the fact that his home state of Virginia was seceding despite his own wishes. By the winter of 1864 General E. Lee was promoted to General-in Chief of the Confederate forces.

"Since the end of the Civil War, it has often been suggested that Lee was in some sense opposed to slavery. In the period following the Civil War and Reconstruction, and after his death, Lee became a central figure in the Lost Cause interpretation of the war, and as succeeding generations came to look on slavery as a terrible immorality, the idea that Lee had always somehow opposed it helped maintain his stature as a symbol of Southern honor and national reconciliation."

Many good guesses with Grant. Looking back at those who guessed, Grant would be the Civil War general to come to mind with a bunch of Yankees.