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American Experience: Robert E. Lee

Nearly a century and a half after his death Robert E. Lee the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War remains a source of fascination and for some veneration. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film examines the life and reputation of the general whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.