User blog comment:Evandrus Primæ/Robert E. Lee is an Assassin/@comment-18014300-20170628102014

Mm, I would be solidly opposed to the Assassins siding with the CSA or even remotely sympathizing with them to be fairly honest. The association of the CSA with slavery in my mind should be inexcusable to the Assassins.

As well, I personally think that at the heart of the Assassins is actually human rights before freedom. If fighting for freedom and independence would also permit slavery to continue, whether indirectly or directly, I can't see the Assassins supporting that except Assassins who had an inadequate understanding of the Assassin ethos like Achilles. I think it's not likely the Assassins would take absolute sides in this conflict. Normally, they should not and do not, like in the French Revolution. In the American Revolution, they slipped up because the Assassins branch in that game only had one naïve, new Assassin taught by a mentor who formerly had a poor understanding of the Assassin ways (possibly because he was the very last apprentice of his own mentor).

The Assassins' concern in the American Civil War would be of one primary subject: slavery. Other political issues between the USA and the CSA are secondary or they would stand apart from them. Slavery, and ending slavery, would be what the Assassins focus on even if that was a secondary topic to the belligerents of the war. If a CSA victory would allow slavery to continue, then the Assassins would oppose it with all their might. I would even say that the most likely scenario would be that the Assassins influenced the Emanipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.

Though I know this doesn't answer the actual topic of Robert E. Lee himself could be an Assassin ally.