Posted on 01/04/2013 3:18:18 PM PST by BigReb555
A portrait of Robert E. Lee adorns the Georgia State Capitol where the Sons of Confederate Veterans held their first Lee birthday celebration in 1988.
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And a good husband, according to my history teacher.
Stonewall Jackson got his name by standing firm in the fray.
Who was known to all his men as good ol’ Papier-mâché?
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“Jackson was a very odd bird” is putting it mildly. Brilliant though and drove his men even harder than Patton. Had he been at Gettysburg the CSA might have extended to Brazil by 1900.
Speaking of Gettysburg. How different things might have been in Jeb Stuart had not been on an extended sortie.
Thanks for the updates. I only remember some of my days in Richmond.
While I have enormous respect for Mr. Foote, he is incorrect here.
In actual fact the two wordings were both used from the beginning of the country, with ARE dominating initially but gradually declining thru about 1900 when IS finally won.
The greatest jump in frequency of the use of IS occurred not during and after the CW, but during and after the War of 1812.
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There stands Jackson like a stone wall. If we resolve to die this day we shall surely win. Rally behind the Virginians! Iirc.
Very unlikely. Southerners with this dream weren't thinking it through.
Given the transportation technology of the time, conquest of Mexico, Central America and southward could only be accomplished by sea, as indeed the American conquest in the Mexican War was, after an overland attempt had failed.
For over 50 years a British commitment to opposing slavery had been fundamental. The Royal Navy (not to mention the US Navy) might have had something to contribute to the discussion over whether the CSA would be allowed to conquer its way into a slave empire in Latin America.
Your observation about the lack of CSA sea power would certainly not be overlooked by Confederate leaders as this was the reason they would have nearly lost the war. The development of the Confederate navy would have been task number one beginning in 1864. I seriously doubt the Democratic leaders in the north would have gone back to war to save Cuba in 1866.
Building a Navy capable of challenging the Royal Navy would have been quite a project, in all likelihood well beyond the capabilities of the CSA.
Anywho, I thought the South seceded because of the oppressive federal taxes. Do you have any idea how much building a major navy cost at the time, or now for that matter? It would also require the development of a truly massive industrial infrastructure, something the South was ideologically opposed to, and which could not have come into existence without large protective tariffs, something specifically prohibited by the CSA Constitution.
Essentially, the CSA could be a low-tax limited government backwater or (theoretically but unlikely given its low population) a hemisphere-conquering industrial and military behemoth.
It could not be both.
I think if they would’ve been able to see what today’s America would like like, they would’ve fought even harder.
If many of the Yankees saw what the US was to become, they’d been not been fighting the Confederates.
If many of the Yankees saw what the US was to become, they’d not been fighting the Confederates.
Post of the year! Very well said.
Robert E. Lee and George Washington were also blood relatives. They were third cousins twice removed. That is Washington’s great great grandfather was Lee’s great great great great grandfather.
Have a great grandad in service to the Confederate Army?
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Heard a story once about Lincoln asking a Yankee general why he hadn’t captured General Robert E. Lee. The Yankee general answered: First, I have to climb over a Hill, then march down a Longstreet and finally bust through a Stonewall, just to see if General Lee is there!
For your enjoyment,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvIU6VQAWpo&feature=related
George C. Marshall graduated from VMI without a single demerit.
My grandfather was the Commandant at VMI when George Marshall was a cadet. When he was in his dotage, he used to love to say: “The reason why George Marshall was so great was because I taught him everything he knows.”
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