Stan, please read my 5:49 am reply to Jamie Roberts. Lee did not own slave in 1860, maybe because of that incident. But ther was a lot more history that had taken place between 1850 and 1860 which I would believe had to be more formative and far more important that this one incident. And I am like Jamie, I had never heard of this in the first place. I am sure that all the Anti-confederate detractor that have existed since 1861 that this would have long ago been made extremely Public Knowledge. Certainly southerners have not been able to redact all the Northern versions of history written over the years that well.

The post War Legend of Robert E. Lee is not a totally Southern creation. Even the Northerners respected him.