From: Retain Mike Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 11:31 PM To: Rush Limbaugh (elrushbo@eibnet.us) Subject: Civil War Military Heritage
This country owes as much of its enviable martial heritage to Southern as Northern soldiers. But in subservience to popular morality, we must now banish the Confederate battle flag and those who served under it. Responding to such assertions Ulysses Grant would repeat from Appomattox, “I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. I do not question, however, the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us”.
When Joshua Chamberlain received the Confederate surrender he said, “Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond;—was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured?”
The issues of states’ rights, secession, and slavery were resolved by the bloodiest conflict this country ever endured. Great men like Grant, Sherman, Lee, and Johnston and their soldiers ended this terrible war, that fire-eaters of both persuasions had stumbled into and could not contain.
Now similar intellectual dwarfs would rewrite this history.
Partial Bibliography:
Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
Joshua Chamberlain https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain
Were Confederate Generals Traitors? http://walterewilliams.com/were-confederate-generals-traitors/
Nice work. Glad you did that.