Posted on 12/17/2013 11:24:11 AM PST by jazusamo
Revisionist history would remove portraits of Confederate legends
The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove the portraits of Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
The college, nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, is doing an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye toward rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army stories.
During the inventory, an unnamed official — not the commandant, Maj. Gen. Anthony A. Cucolo III — asked the administration why the college is honoring two generals who fought against the United States, according to college spokeswoman Carol Kerr.
“I do know at least one person has questioned why we would honor individuals who were enemies of the United States Army,” Ms. Kerr said. “There will be a dialogue when we develop the idea of what do we want the hallway to represent.”
She said one faculty member took down the portraits of Gen. Lee and Gen. Jackson, and put them on the floor as part of the inventory process. That gave rise to rumors that the paintings had been removed.
“This person was struck by the fact we have quite a few Confederate images,” she said, adding that the pictures were put back on a 3rd floor hallway.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
all these bombers and would be bombers fought against the US....all of bams boy toy revolutionaries who are now all high and mighty...
Wow. I’m surprised they haven’t removed all of the Confederates from the National Statuary Collection.
Hmm, upon further investigation they have already started. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was tossed in 2009 in favor of Helen Keller.
That leaves only 8 Confederates still in the Capital Building.
Now they're molding future general turd-burglers in the field.
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Why not? They are quickly renaming schools, parks, etc.; all across the South that were named for Confederate Generals.
The quote was “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.” The next day, Jackson died.
As a proud Northerner and student of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment, let me just say that I think this idea is ridiculous.
Lee and Jackson both graduated from West Point, both served in the Mexican War and both, more importantly, were Americans in addition to being great soldiers.
Even Nathan Bedford Forrest offered his services to William T. Sherman in 1873 due to a threatened war with Spain. Leave the pictures up. Their role in American military history, and the world’s, cannot be denied.
It was not General Cucolo, it was an “unnamed official” who complained.
Thank You! Was true and you have my appreciation.
My pleasure. :)
My bad. Wonder how an employee or an “official” at the Army War College can possibly give off-the-record comments?
At least the reporter was smart enough to carefully exclude the commandant.
Benedict Arnold was a hero who saved the day at Saratoga
But money problems and an extravagant British leaning wife proved his undoing
war of northern aggression????
if i remember my history correctly, the rebels fired the first shot...
with that in mind, who was the aggressor????
Thank you.
I’m glad there are people who realize that he wasn’t ALWAYS a traitor...but it only took the one time to be his ruin.
“Firing the first shot” is not always the first act of aggression. May I commend to you a book which opened my eyes titled Lincoln Takes Command, by John S. Tilley (1941).
President Eisenhower’s letter concerning why he had a picture of Robert E. Lee hanging in his office is most appropriate.
http://www.schistory.net/SCV/articles/ikesletter.htm
What was the “first” act of aggression that required Confederate officials to open fire on a federal fort that had agreed to be abandoned in three days.
Thank you, that’s most inspiring.
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