Posted on 08/20/2015 10:02:41 AM PDT by bob_denard
A celebration of Lee-Jackson Day cannot continue in the campus chapel that honors its namesake Confederate general, Washington and Lee University has decided — citing rancor that still lingers from the Civil War. For more than a decade, Lee Chapel has been the site of a ceremony held by the Stonewall Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group that gathers in Lexington every January for the state holiday that commemorates Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
But in a decision announced this week, W&L denied a request by the confederate veterans group to rent the university-owned chapel for next year’s Lee-Jackson Day.
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The honorable healing began when the Army of the Potomac officer tasked with receiving the surrender, colors and arms of the Army of Northern Virginia, a Maine college professor and Brevet Major General named Joshua Chamberlain, called the AotP to “Carry Arms” as the defeated Confederates passed by.
An act of honor that was almost immediately ruined by the Radicals and their desire to “reconstruct” the South.
We’re actually lucky that there wasn’t more bloodshed following the war than there was.
this is more then intolerant if it was only couple of things would of be not allowed ,but this is a banishment
Washington and Lee should be forced to change its name. If that is how the feel then they disgrace the memory of both Gen. Washington and Gen. Lee.
I was doing some family research recently and found a newspaper clipping about a distant cousin. She was a native of Kansas whose father fought for the Union. Her family moved around a lot, eventually winding up in Virginia, and she married a Virginian whose grandfather wore the grey. The clipping was about the Lee-Jackson Day celebration in 1937. Cousin Marguerite contributed by playing the piano in a quartet. The hall was decorated with Confederate flags and bunting. A hearty meal was served. A professor gave a talk about the causes of the war. It sounded like a pretty nice occasion of local people (including my “Yankee” cousin) commemorating their common history and heritage.
Give away or even “donate” to them.
IIRC, the Union Army’s band played “Dixie” as the surrendered Rebel soldiers filed past. Ulysses Grant had opened his commissary to the famished Confederates, & specified that their officers were to retain side arms (Lee did not have to surrender his sword).
There are a lot of Lincolnphobes here, but had he survived the occupation of the South would have been far milder, IMO. In fact, Lincoln would have been appalled at the ongoing PC purge of any & all reminders of the Confederacy.
a wonderful picture
Lincoln really meant his “with charity for all, with malice towards none” line from his second innaugural.
Not only would the post-war occupation been milder with Lincoln, the lack of an assasinated President would have robbed the Radicals of a martyr for which to punish the South into subservience.
A couple of years back, the then President of William & Mary got himself in hot water by ordering the removal of crucifixes from Wren Chapel.
Board fired his sorry butt in fairly short order after a huge outcry from alumni, accompanied by threats of no more financial support for the college.
These things often have ways of working themselves out.
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Amen, but I fear the second reconstruction is well under way. We kept foolin’ around with that man in the WH & now, here we are.
Our ‘’representatives’’ are a disgrace.
I agree that Lincoln meant to end the “late unpleasantness” as quickly as possible. But if he had lived, would he have been allowed to? Lincoln becomes the great President only after he was assassinated (much like JFK, but his legacy seems to be diminishing). He was able to run the war effort in his role as Commander-in-Chief, but I seriously doubt that Congress would have let him run the peace effort.
‘Ifs’ are great fun in history. If Lincoln had lived, how would we perceive him today? Especially if he had been politically neutered by Congress in his last term.
Excuse me, what? Who do they think they’re named after?
You did not include "EIEIO" in that acronym.
There's no telling HOW many perverts you've insulted with your hate-filled, non-inclusive refusal to divert embracity.
Boy are YOU in trouble...
;-)
And, since by federal law Confederate veterans have the same status as Union veterans, the SCV has EXACTLY the same status as the DAR and SAR.
Next up, removal of the American flag, which many liberals consider racist and a symbol of colonialism, too.
This brings to mind the black Civil War Confederate pride guy, Anthony Hervey, killed when chased by liberal hooligans from the rally at Stone Mountain.
Woman burns NAACP card at rally, injured in crash after allegedly being chased
http://www.examiner.com/article/woman-burns-naacp-card-at-rally-injured-crash-after-allegedly-being-chased
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