Robert E. Lee

The main issue described is the many different reasons for the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War. It talks about the different viewpoints of historians that seem to be biased toward the Confederacy. These opinions are divided in two categories: internal and external.
The first opinion states "that the centrifugal forces of state rights killed the Confederacy." Frank Owsley states that the governors in North Carolina and Georgia withheld men and equipment from the Confederate armies in order to build up their own state armies.
In the second opinion David Donald "argued that the…