Posted on 10/12/2012 11:00:08 AM PDT by BigReb555
America mourned the death of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Wednesday, October 12, 1870 and Friday, October 12th marks the 142nd anniversary of his death.
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In my estimation, Lee was one of this country's greatest Americans. It saddens me whenever I consider his death and the unfair way the North has chosen to remember him!
Fortunately, during my formative years, I was heavily influenced by the most excellent Virginia public schools!
“Just don’t respect a man who violates his oath and takes up arms against his nation...”
Lee RESIGNED his commission in the United States Army many months before being ASKED to accept one in the Confederate Army. He only accepted when it became evident his home state, and relatives and neighbors, were to be subjected to Northern Aggression.
The Constitutional issues raised by the war, have yet to be resolved...The existence of the 10th ammendment is the hope these may yet be resolved through rule of law..or so I pray.
I understand that Grant did the initial agreement, but look at the following link: http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/salute-fallen-south-t32529.html
You have to understand, from his point of view it is OK to deny Southern WHITE people THEIR freedom to come and go as their states so chose, but not OK to deny freedom to a people sold by their own people into slavery, an institution (even if wrongly so) deemed LEGAL by the United States of America.
Venerated is a bit strong. I think it's safe to say that Grant respected Lee, both as an opponent and as a fellow officer.
I am related to General Lee from his mother’s side of the family (Salter). This was an unnecessarily rude remark.
Certainly General Chamberlain deserves credit for his behavior, also.
William Flax
You are correct. Having worked on Chamberlain’s house in Brunswick ME, I am a big Fan and tend to give him a lot of credit for his efforts. I am still impressed with the way he treated the Confederates at the Court House. Have a great weekend.
What I do not understand is why anyone who claims to oppose Marxism, would take a tack denouncing General Lee on the anniversary of his death, when most of us are deeply involved in trying to rescue America from the present descent into Marxist Socialism.
To most of us, an honorable Virginia gentleman, like Robert E. Lee, epitomizes the leadership we so sorely need today. We do not need a revival of the hated rhetoric of Karl Marx's pen pal, Thad Stevens. (See, for example, Civil War, Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today.)
William Flax
There is a statue there of Chamberlain thats looks like he is dribbling an invisible basketball, right?
Hope that Maine swings to the Right, this year!
Well, I admit I gave the story credence because I first heard it on the Discovery Channel...and given their liberal slant to history I figured it had to be true. I mean, no way they put a positive spin on Lee unless it was true.
Given that the original account was written 35 years after the supposed incident, and that it appears the writer was trying to paint Lee with a “modern” racist brush, I question the story’s validity altogether. The idea that Lee would be the only person in church to go out of his way to initiate denigration is totally inconsistent with everything known about the man.
As Jamie and Adam would say, this myth is busted.
By my count the score is now Bubba Ho-Tep 1; Lee’sGhost 3,635.
Congratulations!
thank you for a good read
I’ve not read the comments yet nor have I seen who posted yet but I’m sure the usual troll idiots will be on you for posting this
Shame that even back then and during the war Lee was still respected and honored, today the lack of class and the high ignorance shows just how far this country has gone down.
RIP General Lee
Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and many others respected Lee back then , hell even during the war he was respected by many north and south.
Look at today and the idiots which come out on threads like this making themselves look small and ignorant.
Shame respect and class has gone for some people.
I don’t understand it either. But it’s funny that these people use the exact same tactic that libs use when it comes to trying to discuss it with them.
YOU’RE RACIST! In their little minds, the only possible reason to argue that there were legitimate reasons that caused the WBTS that had nothing to do with slavery is racism.
It makes their heads explode when I point out the war could not possibly be about freedom when you consider the truth and the hypocrisy that by denying secession, the Union and Lincoln were denying FREEDOM. The lack of common sense necessary it takes to ignore those facts boggles the mind.
pfl
For he will smile
And give you, with unflinching courtesy,
Prayers, trappings, letters, uniforms and orders,
Photographs, kindness, valor and advice,
And do it with such grace and gentleness
That you will know you have the whole of him
Pinned down, mapped out, easy to understand—
And so you have.
All things except the heart
The heart he kept himself, that answers all.
For here was someone who lived all his life
In the most fierce and open light of the sun,
Wrote letters freely, did not guard his speech,
Listened and talked with every sort of man,
And kept his heart a secret to the end
From all the picklocks of biographers.
ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
by Steven Vincent Benét
(1898-1943)
Sounds like you're talking about Lincoln, not Lee.
Lincoln only responded to the lunatic treachery of the slavers. And lee a “good little soldier” who just followed orders.
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