The American Spectator

p> CIVIL WARRING br> Re: H.W. Crocker III’s Robert E. Lee: Icon of the South — and American Hero : /p>

I cannot believe your publication would refer to Robert E. Lee, the military leader of a treasonous rebellion, as an American hero. If a man who tried to destroy this country can be described as a “hero” then the word has no meaning.

p>I will no longer purchase your publication, nor read your website. br> — Matt Patterson /p> p> Concerning H. W. Crocker’s article on Robert E. Lee, while I agree that Lee had many admirable personal qualities, I nevertheless have to recognize that he was effectively fighting for slavery and disunion, and that he needlessly prolonged the Civil War, resulting in more deaths and suffering in both sections of the country. That is why this Southern white man would no more consider Lee a great national