Status Updates From Robert E. Lee: A Biography

I've grown to not think very much of this fellow Lee. The entire Southern command was insufferable, but he could/should have been so much more. Lack of decisive leadership, a false concern about the death of his men, an inability to articulate command...

This biographer really stamps his opinion all over everything. And he's grown too repetitive.

This book has most definitely rubbed away any shine from Robert E. Lee.

And it seems thanks are owed to stupid selfish Southern self-important and -deluded fools the North won the Civil War.

Christmas Day 1862, Robert E. Lee voiced - after living his own interpretation of Robert E. Howard's Conan ethos of living, loving, and slaying - that he was content.

First time the biographer identified emphasis as added - and there's been tons of emphasis to this point, which I've been wondering if it was Lee's or the author's. That question remains unanswered, but it is interesting he finally identifies his addition here.

What debacles happen when you don't demand attention and adherence! Finally Lee grew angry, but after far too long quietly trying to avoid conflict. What was more important: keeping the army alive and intact and ready to fight or placating incompetent faux commanders? So much wasted time, effort, and lives.

Not impressed with Granny Lee. He wasted energy, morale, and then allowed men to die in the future by simply pushing problems away and not maning up in the now.

Until these last 2 chapters the author sounded like he liked Lee; these last 2 he sounds more like he looks down upon him.