• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      You missed the end apparently:

      It’s important to understand what happened, because it’s a great lesson on blind loyalty.

      Lee thought the honorable thing to do was fight a war he disagreed with, but without Lee the South likely wouldn’t have had the balls to do it. He was that good of a general, but the governors didn’t listen to him, they had blind faith in him to win a war he told them was unwinnable.

      So everyone just plowed ahead anyways and millions died horrible deaths.

      Like. You really think the lesson:

      Just following orders isnt a valid excuse

      Isn’t important?

      You can’t think of a modern reason we’d want people to understand that?