Growing up in Virginia Lee was considered somewhere just below the Holy Trinity.
I was taught to live as “The General” had: to be honest and truthful, abstain from liquor and to have malice towards none.
We never heard Grant spoken of harshly, probably because of his leniency at the surrender.
The only Union leader universally despised was Sherman.
Murderer, rapist and looter were the kindest names for him.
I know of no Virginian who took any pride in J W Booth.
I was taught the only thing worse than losing the war was the death of Lincoln.
Southerners only get agitated when northerners try to come here and tell us how to live and conduct ourselves.
Yet so many people from the north still have a level of hatred for all things southern.
I keep hearing the south is still fighting a lost war, it seems like the north refuses to let reconstruction go.
They need to “get over it and move on”.
“I know of no Virginian who took any pride in J W Booth.”
...because we can blame him on Maryland for one thing...