• DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    wp:Robert E. Lee#Postbellum life

    After the war, Lee was not arrested or punished (although he was indicted),[136] but he did lose the right to vote as well as some property. Lee’s prewar family home, the Custis-Lee Mansion, was seized by Union forces during the war and turned into Arlington National Cemetery, and his family was not compensated until more than a decade after his death.[137]

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      8 days ago

      …was not compensated…

      I thought I was going to have an aneurysm there, ngl