With only space to post a few hundred words I cannot write a book. I stand by what I say and the basic story line is simple, but true. Lee could have fought on the side of the North like Grant and he chose to be a traitor, and we need his reasons? it is not necessary to know them, his actions on joining the pro-slave owning secessionists of the South means his intentions were to destroy the US as it stood as a nation. No defensive of that, period. Lee was to be tried after he surrounded but Grant used all his power to prevent that and prevailed. If not, Lee, your hero, would have likely been in prison or hung by his neck for treason. My family fought in the Civil War and has been my life long interests to try to understand the great event that shaped our nation and drove this nation, once united again to the long time dream and idea held by many Americans on to Westward Expansion.