by Robert E. Lee

Stratford Hall Plantation
This site is packed with information about the Lee family, one of the most notorious in U.S. history. Click the History link to learn about Robert E. Lee's ancestors, and to read a description of the night he decided to resign from the Union army. Write a letter that President Lincoln might have written to Lee, attempting to convince him not to join the Confederacy.

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
This site contains the Declarations of Secession of all the Confederate states. Choose one state, and read the document. In the Web Links Activity Log, list points that you feel are valid—or else explain why you, like Robert E. Lee, feel that secession is "nothing but revolution."