The article referred to “faux-historian” Mark Bray. I hope that this article will not lead Freepers into lumping historians like myself who have spent their lives as historians and who does my best to make sure that actual and not fake history is taught/spread.
Most recently I had to explain, to inquiring MSM ‘minds,’ that General Pershing did not originate the burying of executed Moro rebels with pig carcasses, because that began with the US Army commander in the Philippines, General Bell, before Pershing took command. I also explained that General Pershing did NOT end the practice.
Also that the many US Army forts named after Confederate generals were done so in the spirit of reconciliation and referred to the service of those generals while they served in the US Army before they resigned their commissions and joined the Confederate Army.
Or those former Confederate soldiers’ service after being accepted back into the U.S. Army and fighting in the Spanish American War, as a number did. Maybe not forts, but streets on forts and such.
Mrs. Mad and I recently attended a lecture regarding the history of a specific region of our State. The speaker was a noted local historian that is a retired university professor. He had so many, easily verifiable, facts wrong I couldn’t sit still and had to challenge him in the open, yea I am that way. Long short I have been invited to give a talk in December regarding the history of another part of Nevada.
Most historians I have known were/are fantastic and I enjoy hearing their information. This guy couldn’t have been more wrong.
Liberals seem to have no idea there was reconciliation after the Civil War.
I guess they have and still do see the South as a separate country that fought and lost the Civil War. They seem to have not a clue how the people of the Confederate States became part of the United States again after the war.
No knowledge that former Confederate soldiers joined the United States Army after the Civil War and fought beside former Union soldiers.