JOHNNY CASH ON CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E LEE

This song by Johnny Cash does not put Cash in a good light.

OK, the initial sentences give the appearance that the song is about brotherly love.

But let's make it crystal clear. Lee was considered the finest soldier in the USA at that time. That's why he was offered command of the Union armies. But Lee declined. Lee instead led the Army of Northern Virginia, a slaveholding state. And as I covered earlier today, contrary to the claims of Pastor Chuck Baldwin, guest on Infowars, Lee did not, repeat not, free his slaves before the war started. He treated the slaves under his control poorly, beating returned fugitive slaves, and trying 3 times but failing to sell the adult slaves but he was able to and did sell the children of those slaves.

If Lee had taken command of the Union armies the war would not have lasted anywhere as near as long as it did. Incompetence of the Union generals led to the war lasting so long. Lee beat them time and time again with inferior numbers through brilliance and luck; he was very good; the Union generals were shite. The Union armies only made any progress under Grant and Sherman, and both were ruthless, Grant bordering on reckless, but he could afford the losses.

The lyrics of the song do not address slavery at all. They appear to be the words of a Confederate, who joined the Confederate Army to defend Georgia against Sherman because Sherman was destroying Atlanta. As the lyrics show:

So look away look away Dixie...
I won't ever stop loving you my Dixie till they put me in the ground
And the last words they probably hear from me are God bless Robert E Lee

So are these words sympathetic to the Confederacy?

The lyrics are provided. The initial sentences suggest that the song might be about brotherly love, thanking Lee for surrendering at Appamattox Court House, saving tens of thousands of lives. But if so then why not have a verse from a slave?

And why the reference to "look away look away Dixie", lyrics from the Confederate National Anthem?

Johnny Cash - God Bless Robert E. Lee


And here's another Cash song on the Confederacy:

JOHNNY CASH ~ THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN


Is that song sympathetic to the Confederacy?

And here's another:

Johnny Cash - Johnny Reb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNq1IDwImPs (embedding disabled)

So that's 3 songs that are explicitly or implicitly sympathetic to the Confederacy.