Welcome to this week's classic episode, fellow ridiculous historians.

We are, as we record, in the great metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia.

And Atlanta, Georgia, like a lot of the southern United States, has a bit of a history to it.

Yeah, yeah.

Not the best history.

From 1861 to 1865, the USA was participating in a little something called the war between the states.

More than a century later, it remains America's bloodiest war.

And it happened right here.

Oh, man.

Among other places. But, you know, it was a pretty, pretty central location to the civil war.

And after the conflict concluded and the Union won, the Confederate Army surrendered,

General Robert E. Lee survived, and he found himself constantly

approached, getting all these cold calls to endorse different memorials or statues or buildings

and so on. And here's the thing. He hated it.

Yeah, let's find out why.

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What's

What's Casey, can we get a little bit of a kind of a Gettysburg vibe music, you know, like with the drums, flute?

There we go.

I feel that cadence.

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