Lee was a very Honorable and Humble man. If you say that slavery was the cause if the war you are a fool...There is a little thing called import tariffs that the South was paying... that paid 75% of the Federal Revenue. The North still had slaves throughout the entire war. Many blacks were hung and burnt in the streets of NY when Lincoln emancipated the slaves. And if some people will educate themselves...they would know that 50,000 plus blacks served in the Confederate Army...Many were paid more than officers pay if they had a technical skill. Fredrick Douglas got the idea of using blacks to fight from the Confederate Army...An 1862 letter from Frederick Douglass to President Abraham Lincoln in which Douglass writes that many blacks serve in the Confederate Army as "real soldiers having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government." So people think before you speak, dont believe what your school books teach you...find out for yourself