Benjamin H. Hill wrote of Lee, “When the future historian shall come to survey the character of Lee he will find it rising like a huge mountain above the undulating plane of humanity, and he must lift his eyes high toward heaven to catch its summit. He possessed every virtue of other great commanders without their vices. He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression; and a victim without murmuring…. a Caesar without his ambition; Frederick without his tyranny; Napoleon without his selfishness; and a Washington without his reward.”