In an undated handout photo, a plaque at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., commemorates a stretch of the Potomac as the “River of Blood†due to casualties there during the Civil War. Posted on 11/25/2015 10:39:04 AM PST by Trumpinator
In an undated handout photo, a plaque at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., commemorates a stretch of the Potomac as the “River of Blood†due to casualties there during the Civil War.
Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club's two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating "The River of Blood."
"Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot," the inscription reads. "The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as 'The River of Blood.'"
The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump's full name, concludes: "It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!"
Like many of Mr. Trump's claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked.
"No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there," said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site.
"The only thing that was remotely close to that," Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed.
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Probably got Trump a few thousand more votes.
The lib media is really desperate.
This showed up as a lead tickler story on my Facebook feed. Top three.
Well, since the river flows downstream and the site was 11 miles up stream, it seems to me the description would be accurate.
I love watching these folls keep digging the hole they’ve fallen in...
It’s a river not a pond. The bodies and blood floated down stream......
Trump’s head and heart certainly seem to be in the right place.
I have to say it is a classy little privately funded monument. Reminds golfers of history without obstructing the course and view.
When aren’t liberals upset. Even when they get their way they are pissy.
Did he mix the cement himself?
Has he ever even been to Sterling Va?
...and he has the right enemies.
So according to the press, the big scandal here is that a thoughtful memorial to an actual thing...may be in the wrong spot?
And they say this as if they:
A) knew about this battle.
B) Give 2 s*its about the war.
C) Had scant little else to write about.
The excerpt length prevents me from posting how this article said Trump also angered environmentalists because he cut down trees for the course.
Trump’s company built the golf course so yes, he was there.
Rowser's Ford, where, as an official historical marker notes, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart led 5,000 Confederate troops including cavalry across the Potomac en route to the Battle of Gettysburg. Stuart though arrived too late to do any good.
Haha...
Brilliant! Love this. Trump knows his demographic.
Well when the plaque says, "...on this spot..." then no, you can't commemorate a battle that never happened.
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