[nathanbedford]

So there is nothing left now for my great-grandfather and great uncle and assorted ancestors who found themselves starved, exhausted, beaten and surrendered at Appomattox but to make their way the hundred miles to home and take up responsibilities of law-abiding, if reluctant, United States citizens, all as admonished by their General, Robert E Lee. There they would mourn their dead and thank God for their survival, miraculous considering the perils of their service, and, toward the end of the century, they would erect monuments in honor of their dead comrades and of the campaigns they waged against great odds. One can argue that America has produced many great generations but these men stand shoulder to shoulder with the founding patriots and the "greatest generation" of the Second World War. I repudiate every fashionable modern tendency to demean their character or their devotion.

[wardaddy]

Well done my man

[Inyo-Mono]

My great-grandfather fought in the 36th Virginia before being captured and sent to Camp Chase in Ohio and a great uncle was killed while serving under General Forrest.

[doorgunner69]

Considering what the northeast has done to us since then, a tragedy it ever happened.

[rxh4n1]

“I repudiate every fashionable modern tendency to demean their character or their devotion.”

Indeed. It’s vile. Denigrate the valiant foe and you denigrate the victory.

[icclearly]

I repudiate every fashionable modern tendency to demean their character or their devotion.

Amen, brother!

Just like today, our country was divided then, and it still is today.

There's always another side to the story and the victors get to write that story like the "always right" NYT. Anyone truly interested in facts should read the book The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzo.

Lincoln was a tyrant!

Too bad. The South lost that war and paid the price then and now.

[cowboyusa]

General Lee deserves great honor as one of the greatest Anericans for working to re- unite the Nation.