Remembering Robert E. Lee: American Patriot and Southern Hero

Huntington News ^ | January 12, 2015 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[BigReb555]

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

[jimt]

Dear Dear Dear - having a bad day? Just a bit of information for you since you seem to be a product of a public school education, such as it is: if and when you debate someone, when you revert to nonsensical hysterics and don’t debate the question at hand ..... you’re a looser. Chill, have a vodka something or other ....

Perhaps before you run down the next guy's education you should learn how to spell "loser".

[vetvetdoug]

Rommel studied NB Forrest moreso than any other American General. Blitzkrieg was designed after Forrest's tactics. There is ample documentation of this.

[Vermont Lt]

Dresden was something, wasn’t it.

I will be the Germans who were there hate the US more than the southerners.

[BenLurkin]

DO you seriously believe that southerners hate the USA?

Or are you making a little joke?

[Georgia Girl 2]

I see you are right on time on all southern threads. Reporting from your Mom’s basement in NYC. LOL!

[Vermont Lt]

I think there are some people who are so brainwashed by their view of stuff that happened 150 years ago they believe their own BS.

Do I think some Southerners hate the US?

Yup.

Do I think all of them do? No. That would be a gross exaggeration.

I think there are a lot of southern and norther fools on FR who periodically lose sight of the real, current, enemy.

[SkyDancer]

Gotcha ... I purposely use either bad grammar or misspell words so that lurkers like yourself have something to do ... otherwise you’d feel inadequate .... I do use spell check.

[Vermont Lt]

I always thought Rommel would have been a fantastic American General. He was a little too “uptight”. If he loosened up just a little bit and was a little less “German” he would have ruled the battlefield.

We are all victims of our culture.

[vetvetdoug]

The use of POWs as shields is reprehensible. In August 1864 600 officers of the Confederacy were used as human shields at Morris Island, SC. The Yankees not only used them as shields but also starved them purposely, having ample supplies of food themselves. Conversely, the Confederate Soldiers at Andersonville suffered from few supplies and did the best with what they had.

General Lee forbid his troops from plundering and destroying the civilian's properties in Pennsylvania and Maryland during the Gettysburg Campaign in contrast with Sherman's actions in the Meridian Campaign, the precursor to the March to the Sea.

The history and pride of the South must be vilified and destroyed before the US can be destroyed. The South is the only defined and cohesive portion of the US that has its own traditions and heritage unsubdued by PC and liberals.

[vetvetdoug]

Ask about the poster named NonSequitur

I'm still here and he isn't.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I’ll be raising a glass to the memory of Marse Robert on Monday”

I’ll be raising a glass to Marse Lincoln who suspended habeus corpus, jailed US congressmen and tried to arrest and jail the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. No wonder he is Barack Obama’s hero.

[jeffersondem]

I know so little about that War. At one time I read the U. S. constitution permitted slavery and that the north was fighting to preserve the constitution. Right or wrong?

[X Fretensis]

The history and pride of the South needs no help in being vilified. Think of Fort Pillow, of Plymouth North Carolina, Andersonville GA. The South’s only defined and cohesive tradition was the institution of slavery. You started a war to preserve it. You lost that war.

[kiryandil]

GG - I'm a Lee supporter, and I was twisting the tail of the ones trash-talking him. Go re-read my post.

I forgive you in advance. :)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Good on you. :-)

[X Fretensis]

That was not Longstreet. That suggestion was made by General E.Porter Alexander. General Lee presented a very cogent response to Alexander’s suggestion. In his memoirs, Alexander stated, after hearting General Lee’s reasoning not to shift to guerilla warfare, he reconsidered his ideas as about the dumbest idea that he had ever put forth.

[kiryandil]

The South’s only defined and cohesive tradition was the institution of slavery.

Oh, the South had another "defined and cohesive tradition", which was beating the @ss of Northern military formations which outnumbered them, and which had massively better supply capabilities.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

And that’s why the south won the war. Oh, wait...

[X Fretensis]

The other Southern tradition is losing at war. They lost the Mississippi River, They lost Vicksburg, they lost Fort Donelson, they lost Nashville, The lost Knoxville, they lost Chattanooga, they lost New Orleans, They lost Atlanta, they lost Richmond, They lost Gettysburg, they lost Shilo. On monument row in Richmond Virginia, the only man there with a winning record is Arthur Ashe.

[vetvetdoug]

Longstreet had made the suggestion and Alexander repeated it. Fighting for the Confederacy, page 550 2nd paragraph. This was Alexander's personal recollection but Longstreet and others had made it a discussion the morning of the surrender which was unmentioned in Alexander's memoirs.