Posted on 10/12/2018 7:13:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
And if the South had won? What would this country look like now?
Defending their homes? From what?
And I’m glad they lost! Look what they were fighting to preserve. An economic system based on the use of slave labor. Not their homes, not their ‘honor’’, they were defending slavery.
Lee was a Virginian first. When his duly elected state government seceded from the Union, he followed. Virginia only seceded because Lincoln was attempting to coerce the states that had already seceded to remain in the Union using force.
True. Although he resigned his commission in the U.S. Military before he assumed a commission in the Confederate Army. The Constitution does not specify whether or under what procedures a state can voluntarily leave the Union.
Northern taxation and eventually northern invasion!!!
If it was all about slavery why did two “slave states” fight for the north!!!! Why was Lincolns first choice to lead his army a slave holder,why did his second choice defend slavery and why was his final choie a slave holder!!! Why did he give a speech saying if he could keep the union together he would accept slavery!!!
Once again, Trump is right. Lee was a great general. Everybody from Eisenhower to Winston Churchill along with many others have said so. There is NOTHING remotely “controversial” about that.....though of course we can count on Leftists and some misguided PC Revisionists here to try to claim his statement was in some way controversial.
99.9% of the Confederacy was made up of people who made less than a couple hundred dollars a year so spare me the whole “they were defending slavery bit”. The war was fought over what most wars are fought over.....money and power!!!
I'm not sure that was an error. Even with the odds against him at Gettysburg, trying for an unlikely victory on Union soil may have been the best chance Lee had. Sometimes you have to play the cards you're dealt.
That ...and the fact he was out numbered 10:1 and was going up against lever action rifle with single shot rifles.
“Grant learned the hard way how to be a greater one.”
Grant was tenacious with an unending supply line compared to Lee.
You mean like Washington was duty bound to the British!!!
Trump was citing a historical fact. Lee was a great general, and every single Civil War historian and scholar who is not insane will verify the President's claim.
Great man, great general but lost Gettysburg because poor decision making on his part.
Who was he fighting on behalf of and for what reason? And if the South had won? Lee and Davis are directly responsible for the costliest and bloodiest war in American history.
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