![]() ![]() It portrays Lee long before the Civil War, when he was still part of the U.S. Still, Byrn is less troubled by another portrait of Lee at West Point. “He chose to betray his country in the defense of his right to subjugate the Black race, which now comprises a significant portion of the Army and officer corps.” Lee was not just a racist and a slave owner,” Byrn said in a research paper co-written with fellow West Point graduate Gabe Royal for the academy’s Modern War Institute. ![]() He’s also in favor of renaming places on the campus that are named for the general – Lee Barracks, Lee Gate, and Lee Road. “When I was a cadet, I didn’t really think a whole lot of the portrait itself or what it meant, that there was a man dressed in a Confederate uniform hanging up on the wall that was actively trying to break the United States apart,” Byrn said.īut in more recent years, as Byrn thought more about the portrait, he began calling for West Point to remove it. Lee in his gray Confederate uniform, a slave tending his horse in the background. He spent late nights studying in the library – underneath a giant portrait of Robert E. Former Army Captain Jimmy Byrn graduated from the U.S. ![]()
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