The fact is that Lee was one of the best and skilled generals of the civil war....his victors , who had every reason to hate him, and who faced him on the battle field, treated him honour following his surrender.

For my part I want all statues of Julius Caesar destroyed because of his defeating of the Gauls and his invasion of Britain....and of Claudius the conqueror of Britain with all of the harm that he inflicted on the Britons, their enslavement....in fact all the statues and busts of the Caesars should be eradicated and destroyed.