This Blogger, on his hadj to Washington D.C., made  a special effort to pay renewed homage to Abraham Lincoln. In reality, the American Civil War, the American Iliad, is about two men: Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. If Lincoln had not been elected President of the United States, the South would not have seceded, ergo no Civil War.  If Lee had taken Lincoln’s offer to command the Federal Armies at the beginning of the war, the war would probably have ended in 90 days. The war was so bloody; the war was such a bloodletting, because Lee went with his state, Virginia, against the Union. He was not the only one; Virginia supplied more troops to the Confederacy than any other rebel state. The war lasted four long years only because of Lee and his killing genius; “ Forty-five percent of all Union casualties—including 56.4 percent of all Union troops wounded and 36.4 percent of all Union troops killed in action—fell at the hands of Lee's army. ” Lee and Lee alone gave the Con...