Posted on 06/30/2015 6:19:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With the revulsion against Confederate symbols that has resulted from shooter Dylann Roof's internet picture with the Confederate battle flag, Robert E. Lee has been put in the gunsights of social radicals. Lee was one of the two great generals of the Civil War and due in part to his good fortune in having an excellent biographer in Douglas Southall Freeman, is generally regarded as the greatest, although it should be noted that Grant won the war.
Lee came from one of the oldest families in Virginia and arguably its most distinguished. His father, Light Horse Harry Lee, was a general in the Revolutionary War and a relative, Richard Henry Lee, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Winfield Scott, general in chief of the Army before the Civil War, thought Lee the best soldier he had ever seen. Lee was offered the command of the Union army but resigned his commission to fight, as he saw it, for his homeland, Virginia. Before the Civil War, the country was referred to as “these United States.” After the Civil War, it was “the United States.” So, ante bellum, there was a different view of the country than we have now.
Lee was a great leader of men as well as a brilliant soldier. He came to represent the heart of the Confederacy. His aristocratic background and bearing, his having sacrificed his fortune for the Cause, and his victories in the field led him to become the ideal, almost the incarnation, of the Confederacy itself.
His leadership in the Confederacy is now considered dishonorable, or at least disreputable, by member sof the adversary culture. It is true, as Grant observed, that the Confederacy fought valiantly for “as bad a cause as there ever was.”
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It has been obvious that the Left hates America and its military.
We have folks on this very forum who detest southern history as much or more than any ardent lefty
They have made a career here and many collude and work together here just to fulfill Rich Lowery and Jonah Goldbergs south hating fantasies
Many are retreads after finally being outed in front of JR as not so conservative
I did not realize until I came to this forum 15 years ago that there was this northeastern Rockefeller style conservatism that wished to purge southern regionalism from the ranks and with a vengeance
Naturally they are oblivious to culture war by nature
I try to keep up with and list them on my homepage
They are farts that emit from the same anus
Was Lee even considered to be evil by blacks EVER?
One of my black co-workers said to me that he has two uncles with the middle name Lee. It was considered to be such a revered name in the south and synonymous with honorable and selflessness on both sides.
If he was such a detested figure, then he would have been hung at the first opportunity, jailed for life, or shot by a disgruntled northerner.
LOL. I had to go look at your homepage to make sure you listed non-sequitur. Wow, that's been a while. Good job.
Growing up here in Michigan I don’t recall ever being taught that Lee was a bad person in any way. He was given the same level of respect as Grant.
Many on the far left *claim* to be pacifist, yet they worship blood thirsty mass murderers like Mao, Che and Castro, who half the time is dressed in military gear.
There are posters on this board who consider Robert E. Lee to be the equivalent of Heinrich Himmler. They’ll probably show up on this thread.
traditionally Lee has not been reviled, except by a very few nasty jerks. It does appear, now, that all things southern must be held up to ridicule, if not totally torn from American history. If you give them an inch, they take a mile.
Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House; but we are expected to keep surrendering every damned day to these vile creatures.
Since the cemetery was from land from George Washington Parke Custis,I have a question. I do not know but GWPC probably was a slave owner. Don’t we have to then take all the graves out of the cemetery and place them elsewhere? That includes Presidents Kennedy and Taft. And about 300,000 others.
Growing up in rural Iowa public schools, the memory of Robert E. Lee was treated with the utmost respect. This was in Iowa, which contributed more in Union manpower per capita than any other state. Seems like any demonization of Lee is historically recent or was limited to certain quirky locales.
No revulsion of Klan members with US flags.
It also appears they adore ISIS as well.
Viscount Garnet Wolseley may well have been the greatest soldier ever produced by The United Kingdom. Here is his opinion of Robert E. Lee.
” I desire to make known to the reader not only the renowned
soldier, whom I believe to have been the greatest of his age,
but to give some insight into the character of one whom I
have always considered the most perfect man I ever met.”
Wolseley on Lee
” He was opposed to secession, and to prevent it he would
willingly sacrifice everything except honor and duty, which
forbid him to desert his State... Nothing would induce him
to have any part in the invasion of his own State, much as
he abhorred the war into which he felt she was rushing. His
love of country (Virginia), his unselfish patriotism, caused
him to relinquish home, fortune, a certain future, in fact
everything for her sake.”
Wolseley on Lee turning down the offer
of command of the Union army to side
with Virginia and the Confederacy
” He spoke bitterly of none - a remarkable fact, as at that
time men on both sides were wont to heap the most
violent terms of abuse upon their respective enemies.”
Wolseley on the character and
Christian nature of Lee
” Where else in history is a great man to be found whose
whole life was one such blameless record of duty nobly
done? ... The most perfect gentleman of a State long
celebrated for its chivalry, he was just, gentle, and
generous, and child-like in the simplicity of his
character.”
Wolseley on the character of Lee
” I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee
alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in the
presence of a man who was cast in a grander mould,
and made of different and of finer metal than all other
men. He is stamped upon my memory as a being apart
and superior to all others in every way: a man with whom
none I ever knew, and very few of whom I have read, are
worthy to be classed.”
Wolseley on the greatness of Lee
and finally,
” When all the angry feelings roused by Secession are
buried with those which existed when the Declaration of
Independence was written, when Americans can review
the history of their last great rebellion with calm impartiality,
I believe that all will admit that General Lee towered
far above all men on either side of that struggle: I believe
he will be regarded not only as the most prominent figure
of the Confederacy, but as the great American of the
nineteenth century, whose statue is well worthy to stand
on an equal pedestal with that of Washington, and whose
memory is worthy to be enshrined in the hearts of all his
countrymen.”
The other side will keep pushing and trying to erase and rewrite our history. It’s what they do.
We need to be even more forceful in resisting it.
I enjoy reading American history during the War of Secession. I’ve read accounts from both sides and enjoy a hearty debate from time to time. One of my most memorable moments was when I visited the Confederate POW camp at Andersonville.
The radical, lunatic left gets a twofer now, they hate the Military (Lee) and the South then and now. Part of the reason they may hate the military so is because of the heavy number of Southerners who traditionally join the military.
If you mean that ISIS fag, i mean, ISIS *flag* thing a few days ago, I suspect that was more of a jab at patriots, attempting to equate our so-called "homophobia" to the ISIS terrorist threat.
CNN was out of the gate with that report. They simply do not vet stories before reporting them. Liberal media is a joke.
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