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Why was it surprising that Robert E. Lee let the confederate army?

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Lee believed that slavery was a "moral and political evil".

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Because when the Civil War began, Robert E. Lee, the Commander-in-Chief of the Confederation's army, did not own slaves, and General Ulysses Grant, commander of the Norther army, was a slave owner.

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