Being a Virginia native, that is where his heart and sentiments ultimately rested.
Your state was your country.
I think along the same lines, albeit with the supremacy of the universal one true Catholic faith that spans all of creation.
"These are the voyages of the starship Robert E Lee (NCC 1807); its ongoing mission to seek out new catechumens,
Baptizing then in nomine Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, making Catholics where there were no Catholics before.....🤠🙏