Weird Tract Number 42: "An Officer and a Gentleman: The Christian Character of Robert E. Lee" by James L. Melton

Troy Davis writes:

This 2006 pamphlet by James L. Melton of the Bible Baptist Church of Martin, Tennessee is a good example of the century-and-a-half effort to rehabilitate the reputation of sadistic traitors known as the Lost Cause. Melton emphasizes Lee's church attendance and his eschewing of alcohol, tobacco, profanity, and dirty jokes. What Melton fails to note is that Lee was a slavocrat who brutalized his slaves; Lee tore slave families apart; he kept people enslaved even though the death of their previous owner dictated that they were to be freed upon his death; and his army captured free Northern blacks and sent them to the South to be enslaved. Yuck.

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