Leonard Pitts Jr.: America has always run from the truth of itself
Robert E. Lee has retreated from Richmond. Again.
The first time, you will recall, was in April of 1865, when he and his tattered army abandoned the city, fleeing east before finally surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse to federal forces commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant. This latest — and, one hopes, last — retreat was similarly ignoble. Last week, a 12-ton,
