Return to story Gary W. Gallagher will discuss his new book, due
in stores this May. BY CLINT SCHEMMER Why did Robert E. Lee
resign from the U.S. Army and take Virginia's side in the Civil
War? His decision was one of the most consequential of the
conflict. Tonight, one of the nation's leading Civil War
historians will share his fresh analysis of Lee's loyalties to
Virginia, the United States, the South and the Confederacy. Gary
W. Gallagher's 7 p.m. lecture in the Central Rappahannock
Regional Library headquarters theater is sponsored by the Lee-
Jackson Educational Foundation and the library. It is the second
in a series of annual lectures, offered free to the public,
featuring noted authors discussing their books on Lee's life and
military achievements. Last year, biographer Elizabeth Brown
Pryor, who wrote "Reading Lee," spoke at Kenmore. Gallagher will
stress the need to think of Lee as a complex person whose
loyalty to Virginia did not always guide his actions. He had a
range of allegiances, according to