Posted on 09/17/2020 3:01:58 AM PDT by nathanbedford
Good post!
Visited Harper’s Ferry in the 60’s. The tour guide did and excellent job of keeping teenage boys attention and telling the story. Focal point in history.
Bump for later reading
Thanks for posting. WOW. Good to see you. History/education BUMP!
Camped at the battlefield many moons ago, when my son was with the boy scouts. Memories of standing on the stone bridge that crosses the creek, trying to visualize what it must have been like trying to cross it during that battle.
Thank you for reminding us today. We need these reminders as the wicked try to Rob is of our history, our memories, our very selves.
My ancestor was serving a the chief medical steward for The Surgeon Generals Office in Washington ,DC dealing with the human carnage of Lee’s treason.
Really? Lee was never convicted of or even tried for treason, rather, his descendents were awarded compensation by the government for misappropriating the Custis Lee mansion overlooking Arlington.
Lee surrendered according to the terms outlined by US Grant awarding parole to those who surrendered.
A politically correct memory can be a distorted memory and worse than unreliable in these dubious days of intersectionality.
Nathan Bedford was an American Hero, doesn’t matter what side you were on. We were all Americans and we are still.
A cousin of mine was there in the Ct 16th.
We were doing well and advancing.
After crossing Snavely’s ford, within a half a day, A. P. Hill arrived and beat us back hard enough that the CT 16th could not bring enough troops to bear in Fredericksburg and sat that one out in the rear with the gear.
He was wounded in the Peninsula Campaigns, brought to a prison camp and later died. He is buried in the cemetery in New Bern, NC.
Thanks for the post. One of my ancestors was part of a regiment from Thomasville GA in the cornfield. Almost no survivors. he died there. That was before they dispersed men to keep whole towns from losing their young men.
The history I learned taught me that the US army invaded Virginia after a Virginia convention, elected democratically, voted to exercise its constitutional right to withdraw from the union of states.
And Lincoln’s slaughter began.
And when it was all over, northern carpetbaggers descended into the south to assist in the reconstruction out of the goodness of their hearts.
Your desired virtue of one side while demonizing the other very much show a basic lack of understanding of the men who fought. The fighting men were just men who stood for their states, how it was back then, and paid horrible prices. Honor those men on both sides. They deserve their individual honor because the individuals did what they thought was their duty under conditions we cannot even comprehend.
I read stories of honor, valor, courage, ... on both sides then look into the mirror and know that I am not cut of the same cloth no matter what I would like to believe.
We cannot understand the way the country was seen by people back then but loyalty to ones state was very high. In some ways, that would be a good thing to get back too with less reliance on everyone to look at the FedGov for a giant one size fits all government.
Maybe you can make some peace with this period in history and just accept that most were just ordinary men trying to make the least worse decision honorably.
And Lincoln’s slaughter began.
Uh, didn't the war begin like a month or more earlier with the attack on Fort Sumter?
These re-writers of history are dangerous and so are the statue topplers like Nikki Haley.
Depends how you look at. The original 7 gulf states of the CSA attacked ft. Sumter. VA wasn’t part of the CSA at that time. They joined the CSA 5 days later.
So, what’s Fort A.P. Hill’s new name going to be?
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