LeeGrantThosNast Published 7 July 2019 at 1600 × 973 in Robert E. Lee and the Fashionable Urge to Hide from History / Next → Lee surrenders, 9 April 1865. “He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring.” (Painting by Thomas Nast, 1895, Wikimedia Commons) Share this article: