Thanks for posting that.
My ancestors are from upstate NY, both sides of the family.
I have lived all of my adult life in Virginia immersed in the history here.
It pains me to see that history destroyed.
It’s also painful to see ignorant posts by freepers that we shouldn’t have bases named after traitors.
The men who were being shot at by them did not even regard them as traitors.
A few years ago we visited the Appomattox Court House.
Talking with others inline, they said they lived in the area, I ask if they came here often?
Never had visited!... Their grandparents did not celebrate the 4th of July!... I can understand, their ancestors had lost almost everything.
Changing the name of Fort Sheridan does nothing for them.
Guessing that the vast majority rioters have no connection to much of anything much less of a notion of honor.
Lee had read the northern papers calling for his hanging, and quite possibly it might have happened?
He could have ordered the men to fall back, cut off he did not...
“ Gordon gave him a reply he knew Lee did not want to hear: “Tell General Lee I have fought my corps to a frazzle, and I fear I can do nothing unless I am heavily supported by Longstreet’s corps.” Upon hearing it Lee finally stated the inevitable: “Then there is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths.”
Americans of great honor, all of them.
Also notice:
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Notice the lack of trash talk about the CSA.