I don’t remember how the Civil War was taught to me in school, but I have heard people try hard to make Lee seem like a better people and general than he actually was. Not to the same level as you’d find in some places in the deep South (I live in the DMV) where there are statues of the man, but still more complimentary than he deserves.being from up north and moving south, its just so odd for me to see Confederate names everywhere and people bigging up Robert E Lee
like we used to laugh in history class at how the North destroyed the south and how the Confederacy was a bunch of bums
I’ve definitely heard people praise the skill of the Confederate armies and claim the Union only won due to superior manpower and resources. These people, of course, only focus on the one theatre of the war where the North was struggling. Everywhere else, especially in the more-important Western front, the Union was beating the Confederacy from the beginning. But try to argue with neo-Confederates and Lost Cause sympathizers, brehs.
