What If Lee Won at Gettysburg?

I toy with alternate history a little bit, though usually in 20th century settings. And I know I'm just a piker compared to people who take it seriously. 

The Alternate Historian account on BlueSky asked, a few days ago, "Which historical individual's reputation in alternate history (whether good or bad) is not well deserved?"

One of the answers he got was something I've never thought of before. It came from Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social:

Robert E. Lee, and it's not even a contest. The man's treated like a noble patrician and military mastermind in actual history, and I am aware of precisely zero works of alternate history that treat him as the myopic military commander, and profoundly evil slaver he actually was.

The best thing that ever happened to Lee was losing Gettysburg. If by some miracle he'd gotten over his own bullshit and won that battle, the victory would have almost certainly led to the total destruction of the ANV during their planned assault on DC.

His army had expended most of their artillery during Gettysburg. They would have gotten swamped at Washington, which was a fortress by the summer of 1863. Defeat would be obvious, but Lee's ego was so inflated before Gettysburg that after, he probably would believe God would provide him cannons.

He'd do a typical dramatic charge, hoping for a dramatic final battle to decide the war, and end up getting obliterated. If he wasn't killed by the Union counterattack, calls to hang him would be deafening.

Lincoln would face enormous pressure to take a harder stance against the Confederates, which with the ANV taken off the board would carry fewer risks.

Lee would be remembered in the North as the greatest traitor in the country's history, and in the South as the man who lost the war.

The destruction of the ANV would also likely mean the death or capture of some of the South's other mythologized leaders. Ewell, A.P. Hill, Longstreet, Jubal Early, J.E.B. Stuart, and Pickett would likely be captured or killed, and their post war reputations would suffer.

Huh. I never thought I should have rooted for Lee to win at Gettysburg, but it sounds like I should have. Then maybe the South would have both lost the war and the time after it, instead of winning Reconstruction.