![]() ![]() ![]() The changes in perspectives of Lee were particularly important in the creation of the Robert E. Between 1865 and the 1930s, memorialists transformed Lee from a Confederate icon to a figure of national unity. Other biographers highlighted Lee’s attempts to restore the Union after the Civil War. For example, some former Confederates argued that Lee was a Confederate to his last breath. The memory of Lee changed over time as each new generation re-wrote the history of Lee and the Confederacy. But the memorials did not all tell the same story of Robert E. ![]() Well into the twentieth century, White Southerners created roads, museums, and books to celebrate Lee’s character and accomplishments. Memorials were not just statues and monuments. Lee became one of the most memorialized figures of the former Confederacy. In the years following the Civil War, Robert E. Lee the central hero of the Lost Cause memory of the Civil War. Detail from a memorial print published in 1895. ![]()
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