Robert E. Lee is to this day the only person to pass through the U.S. Military Academy at West Point without a single demerit. In the Mexican War, General Winfield Scott called him “the greatest soldier I’ve ever seen.” As an Army Engineer, he re-routed the Mississippi River and saved the city of St Louis. When he inherited slaves from his father-in-law, he educated them and set them free, and he referred to slavery as “a political and moral evil.”He turned down Lincoln’s offer to command the U.S. Army that would invade the South and his home State of Virginia,