Curious Facts About Robert E. Lee

Did you know . . .

. . . Robert E. Lee opposed secession?
. . . He opposed slavery?
. . . He served three years as superintendent of West Point in New York State (where earlier, as a cadet, he'd graduated second in his class)?
. . . Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army in early 1861, but Lee refused because he wouldn’t wage war against his home state of Virginia?
. . . Lee declined to carry a weapon while commanding the Army of Northern Virginia and confided in a letter to his son Custis, three months before the Civil War began, that he personally intended to fight only in self-defense?