Robert Edward Lee was one of the most famous American military and Confederate army generals. Historically, the figure of Robert Lee should be seen in the context of the nineteenth-century Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. This general is associated with the efforts of the Southern forces of North America to secede and gain sovereignty, which means that Robert Lee is one of the central faces of the Eastern Theater of the Civil War for Independence. Lee opposed the Union forces and was a military opponent of Ulysses Grant, the general and then the 18th President of the United States. Interestingly, Robert opposed slavery and called it a moral evil, but his family owned several slaves, creating a fundamental contradiction in his biography (Hardiman). More generally, Lee’s figure is linked to the possibility of the most prominent sovereign divide in U.S. history.
Freedmen’s Bureau is the formal name of a humanitarian organization that helped refugees and former slaves find support during a transitional period in American social history. When ideas of slavery no longer found an encouraging resonance in society, a process of rehabilitation of previously wounded social groups was set in motion in the United States. This was particularly true in the post-Civil War era when the U.S. was on the road to reconstruction. Poverty-stricken African-American slaves and refugees and their families were able to receive shelter, food, and medical care through the Freedmen’s Bureau. Freedmen’s Bureau had a positive social impact: it created schools, built hospitals, and fed former slaves (Campbell). In terms of overall impact, the emergence of the Freedmen’s Bureau marked the humanitarianism of American politics and the desire to establish social practices in a changing country.
Works Cited
ACampbell. “Freedmen’s Bureau.” VCU, 2019, Web.
Hardiman, Samuel. “Confederate Monuments: Robert E. Lee, the General Who Became the Face of ‘Lost Cause’ Mythology.” Commercial Appeal, 2020, Web.