So slave owner Thomas Jefferson, well known for fathering a number of children with said slaves, cuts the mustard but Robert E. Lee, one of America's most brilliant military minds, who did not want the war to happen, was offered the job of leading the Union Army but declined only out of steadfast loyalty to his home state of Virginia doesn't? Lee was no proponent of the 'Lost Cause', telling Confederate soldiers after the war that they should become proud Americans and leave the conflict behind. Isn't playing at "moral equivalency" with these historical figures just as flawed as "presentism"?