text: I believe 1Oakland.  Robert E. Lee was indicted.  President Andrew Johnson himself a Southerner wanted him hanged.  General Ulysses S. Grant, also a West Point graduate, didn't want Lee hanged for fear of him becoming a martyr.  So Grant intervened and  threatened to resign unless Lee's indictment was dropped.  Lee nevertheless became a martyr to the defeated South who believed "the South shall rise again".  This led to Jim Crow and the KKK, a Christian terrorist organization that burned crosses to intimidate the freed slaves.  The Southern Baptists sect of Christianity was created by Plantation slave owners.  Billy Graham probably is its most famous spokesman.
  Sadly, when people today hear Robert E. Lee they remember the car in the TV show "The Dukes of Hazard".
  Harry, Hollywood is making a remake of the "Dukes of Hazard" only with a different take and it won't be starring Bert Reynolds and Jerry Reed.