Terril Granger...Come down to Sumter County, Florida talking like that and I'll KICK YOUR ASS. Lee hated slavery. In fact, he freed all of his slaves years before the war ever started and Grant's wife owned slaves until she was forced to free them by the thirteenth amendment. And even Grant, that yankee hero, bought a slave from his wife's father, making himself a slavemaster. And succession is by no means treason. Governments rule by the consent of the governed, so if the federal government no longer has such consent, it can no longer lawfully govern; making succession the only justifiable course. And Lee is not doing a 'take back' of his surrender in this quote, as you imply. He is simply saying that if he had known then what he knows at this time, he WOULDN'T have surrendered. Study history before you try to teach it to others. YOU DUMBASS.