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He had zero slaves when the war started... Grant on the other hand had some.Robert E. Lee as a man was quite decent. I can't hate on him as a person, he was more against slavery than most of his Union counterparts even.
That doesn't mean the segregationist and secessionist monuments get to stick around.
That's one of those things that gets buried in history books and never spoken about.