Officers of the united states government. the only reason anyone knows of robert e. lee s name or stonewall jackson s name is because they were insurrectionists of this country. now, i have differences in terms of george washington owning slaves and thomas jefferson, but they were presidents of countries. of this country. and you can have the argument that you have to respect who were the presidents, and you would cite them. but how do you lump in people that really led rebell yons against the country? i think it s a mass miss education. and for the president of the united states to tril trivial eyes people objecting to confederate generals coming down saying they re trying to wipe out our history and try to link all of it as one subject rather than being sensitive to the disgrace that this was in the american historic story is what adds to this, and it s the height of irresponsibility of this president. let s take a closer look at