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Beliefs of Robert E. Lee

ion in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lee did not leave the black population off his list to be educated. He worked out a plan to have the blacks attend classes (although in a separate area of the school). Because of his ill health at the time, Lee's plan for blacks was never implemented, because he had to leave his position at the school prematurely (Freeman, Vol IV, p. 194).

Lee's concern for moral values and the education of the young did not begin after the finish of the Civil War. In fact, all during his tenure as a Confederate commander his letters to his family display a tender concern for his children, his wife, the strength provided by his family in times of stress, and the like. His son also notes that his father did all that he could to help along the interest in religion that was revived in the Confederate Army in 1863 (Lee, 1924, p. 105).

Lee once wrote to his daughter, Mildred, that his thoughts during the War constantly reverted to her, her sisters, and his wife. His "heart ached for our reunion", and he longed to see his youngest daughter, Agnes (Lee, 1924, 88-89).

Lee's incredible sense of chivalry and acceptance in the face of defeat is one of the reasons he became such a "God figure" for Virginians, and a saint in the eyes of the white Protestant South. He was, to the Virginians of his time and after, a symbol of their moral superiority over the rest of the nation, a rationale, for the myth of the Lost Cause, and proof of the argument that the right

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