Stephen Dill Lee Symposium on Lee

This morning's Washington Times has a great article about the SCV's Stephen Dill Lee Symposium: Lee - Hero or Traitor? I must say, this was one of the best conferences of this type I've ever had the pleasure of attending.

The Times piece notes that Robert Krick, once again, attacked the politically correct assertion that Lee's greatness was a myth created by Lost Cause sympathies after the war. I have posted on this same thought previously.

From the Times' piece:

Robert E. Lee has been attacked by revisionist historians who have argued that the Confederate commander's reputation was a "postwar mythical creation," a Civil War historian said at a weekend conference in Arlington. "A wretched flood of Lee biographies" has been published in recent years, Robert K. Krick told more than 200 attendees at Saturday's Lee Bicentennial Symposium at the Key Bridge Marriott hotel. "These kinds of books ... offer no new evidence," said Mr. Krick, author of 16 books on the war. The revisionist arguments, he said, consist mainly of "counterfactual blathering." Revisionists have asserted that Lee's reputation was inflated after the war as part of a "Lost Cause myth," said Mr. Krick, who spent three decades as chief historian of Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park.

Criticism of the event will no doubt come from the usual corners and Krick's comments would have driven those in pc-denial mad as he offered a warning about their ilk, which I'll be posting on later, along with more photos. C-Span was also there to capture Krick's speech on tape.

(Photo is of Robert Krick speaking at the conference)