Here is what I genuinely do not understand about the Robert E. Lee discourse. I get admiring people who did terrible things but still made great contributions to the nation (Thomas Jefferson). I do not get wanting to laud someone who did terrible things AND their most famous contribution to the nation was leading a war that ripped the nation apart, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and was waged in defense of an objective evil. Like what exactly did Robert E. Lee do that was GOOD and worthy of America celebrating? He tried to destroy the country in defense of slavery!
And don't give me "he was brave" or "he was a skilled military man" ok so were lots of members of the Imperial Japanese Army but we aren't erecting statues of them in America.