Go ye down Lee gently to the grave Though ye image (statue) down not gently gently go ye memory, to the grave you who fought, not as "for slaves" but stood against deprivation though the principles dishonorable too honorable in the end. history, writes the victor. these days, the victor obliterates history. and we, who (are) doomed, to repeat it. and resurrect you one last to reconcile those old slanders as of judgement day. set aside old wounds, old errors and right again the history page. the folly of the ship of state. A war for freedom, not for slaves. You were right from that day Northern democracy, and federal peace are a tyrants mockery. The Truth shall set us free. Better (to) be wrong in the causes (for which) we fight. And fight on still. Then to have never fought at all. We honor the true, and valiant, and honorable among those victors who fought and won, though died when we preserve the memory of those they defeated for in their immortality, less we forget them, and repeat it so too we forget for why the good men fought and why the good men died.