This week marks the 150th anniversary of Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from the nation’s capital. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and so many American soldiers’ remains famously rest on land that was the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It’s fitting somehow. Lee led the armies that would have divided the Union. And yet in his personal nobility he became a point of reconciliation. Symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern cause, and American icon. A new biography brings us the southern general – and his complexity – once more. This hour On Point: Robert E. Lee. – Tom Ashbrook, On Point Radio
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:19:41 +0000
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