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
LOL. I had to go look at your homepage to make sure you listed non-sequitur. Wow, that's been a while. Good job.
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.
Boy, are you right about that! I’m amazed at the southern history haters here. Do you remember how I was attacked when I briefly challenged Mark Levin’s seeming hatred of the south?
For an Auburn fan, you are one good dude. :)
(Note: I grew up in Alabama back in the Bear Bryant days and my dad’s military career got me up to Ohio). God I miss Bama.
Extremely well put, and quite accurate. Their names need to be shared throughout FR.
Rockefeller repubs= John D. (the murderer and destroyer of privately owned oil wells— he murdered the owners). To this “class” all of us are .... “them”. And they are Progressives, who use our own govt. against us and FOR them.
Witness the creation of the federal mining health agency— created to cost shift black lung and other costs onto the american taxpayer and away from .... the Rockefellers. This is the SAME thing that obamaumao-SCOTUScare is to achieve at the behest of the corporate class. So... our Congress licks up the spittle of the Rockefellers et al, just as before. And on TPP and TPA and on and on. The globalist cabal.