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Incorrect: Lee betrayed his oaths as a US Army officer not due to John Brown's Raid radicalizing him, but because he was protecting his wealth/status: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/uycmx (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/books/review/robert-e-lee-allen-c-guelzo.html) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1910/12/a-heros-conscience-a-study-of-robert-e-lee/644249/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBKc5cOb_yA https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/reexamining-the-legacy-of-race-and-robert-e-lee https://web.archive.org/web/20100722154442/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/leereport.html Lee was in fact offered command of the Union forces but lied and deserted, contemporary accounts show: https://archive.org/stream/releebiographyby04free/releebiographyby04free_djvu.txt
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