The Lee Corps is a Christian Cadet training and education program geared toward home-school and private school students designed to prepare them to serve their country and communities and train them to bring the gospel of Christ into the military ranks.
Many Christian families, teens in particular, have expressed a desire for an organization to teach JROTC style training to round out their education and preparation for future service to their communities, state, and nation. The Lee Corps has answered the call. It is the hope and prayer of the Lee Corps to help grow a generation of youth to rekindle the embers of Christendom in the military and community ranks throughout our nation.
The Lee Corps is named after General Robert E. Lee, a firmly Christian American military leader who embodied the gospel in every aspect of his life. His influence was strongly evident throughout his officer corps and all ranks of his army, in every command in which he served. He was deeply loved by his officers and men of every rank, and he exhibited the greatest personal care for their wellbeing, while ensuring they were trained, equipped and ready for service. Lee actively spread the gospel throughout the military ranks and beyond into civilian life, which epitomizes the mission of the Lee Corps. While he fought for the Confederacy as an advocate for states’ rights, he personally opposed slavery and worked to educate and free slaves. He did not own slaves for most of his life until he inherited a plantation upon the death of his father-in-law, upon which he began to educate and free them. Upon accepting a commission in the Confederate Army, Lee immediately petitioned the Virginia Legislature and Jefferson Davis to free the slaves and confine the war to the issue of state rights as he considered slavery a corrupt institution that should be immediately abolished. Following the war, Lee worked diligently to support reunification efforts for the country. The force of his character alone averted decades of guerrilla warfare proposed by many in the Confederacy. He serves as an exceptional role model for the Lee Corps cadets and should remain an honored hero in American history.
SOURCES include:
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Robert E. Lee
Lee’s lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman
Call of Duty the Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins
Lee Corps Christian Cadet Training Program 