Posted on 01/18/2005 5:57:53 PM PST by wagglebee
I second that.
Good post. Any reading of RE Lee makes it clear that he was a soldier first, politician not at all. Robert E. Lee did not foment secession, but when his state left, he went with it as its servant.
The alternative was for him to renounce his home, as he wrote about it....and from that perspective, he had no other choice...He was on the right side as far as his conscience and honor could grasp.
GregGinn, you should be so lucky that you never have to make such a fateful decision.
Machinery and low cost labor was also taking it's fortunate toll on a evil practice.
The truth about the war was that the north wanted cheap raw materials, and they wanted to control all natural resources. Not unlike our treatment of Alaska and it's oil resources.
The Slavery issue as it relates to the Civil War was more of a contrived one... This is evidenced in the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation DID NOT free one slave in the Union... only in those states that seceded. Slavery became an issue when Washington became worried that Europe would provide military support to the south.
Thanks ... maybe I'll have to skip the autograph to get the best book!
Now I dispute that reading of General Grant. He was not qualified to be president, but he was a good man and worthy of admiration.
Sorry! All that I remember was that the South attacked Fort Sumtner (Sp?) (I think that fort). Didn't know who provoked the other just knew that the North had not been openly agressive and the South attacked. Still, Lee was a great man(as I've said 2previous times).
I was sure that is what you meant but Fort Sumter is not in the North.
Any time :-). Happy Lee-Jackson Day!
All right, no big deal LOL! But it shows how he was revered that the story survived.
Very nice words indeed.
"In his final moments General Lee was reported to have made two seperate statements (Famous Last Words) the first one as I recall was :"Tell Hill he must come up" Anyone remember the second one.?"
IIRC, "Strike the tent."
Thanks! "Deo Vindice Christian School" (registered with the state under that name :-). Motto, "You may be whatever you resolve to be."
Tomorrow we'll be searching the History Channel website for good Civil War stuff!
Yes he was. But he met another in Grant who wouldnt quit no matter what. And Lee admitted it.
If Lee would have set aside the old style Napoleon tactics and given thought to more modern tactics, things might have been a whole lot different.
The best defense is offense and it was proven back then.
Thank you sir! I will check them out in the morning.
He had more "mercy" than Sherman and his terms of surrender for Lee were admirable, that's about it. He was elected president because half of the country was not allowed to vote. I've read the Constitution many times and I fail to see how it is that sovereign states which VOLUNTARILY entered into the Union somehow forfeited their sovereign right to secede from that Union.
It is obvious the North was preparing for war. President Buchannan agreed to leave the forts alone if they were not attacked. Colonel Gardner sought reinforcements at a Charleston arsenal and the citizens of Charleston prevented an envoy from restocking.
Major Anderson, upon taking control of Ft. Sumter, buttoned down and sought reinforcements, but knew it would provoke Charleston citizens. Lincoln reinforced the fort and ignited four years of war.
America remembers Robert E. Lee as a part of the rebel alliance and a traitor.
Yeah... BTW If you don't mind, what happened at Fort Picken's. ? It has been a few years since I studied the Civil War, will be a couple more till I study it again and don't really remember Fort Picken's.
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