Robert E. Lee’s Decision to Side with the Confederacy

Gary Gallagher, a history professor at the University of Virginia, discusses Robert E. Lee's decision to side with the Confederacy soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. This audio clip is an excerpt from an interview that originally aired during the week of August 25, 2001, on With Good Reason, a radio program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and hosted by Sarah McConnell.