Posted on 12/17/2015 1:01:38 PM PST by yoe
Edited on 12/17/2015 1:26:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Lee Circle will lose the statue of its namesake after the New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 Thursday (Dec. 17) to remove four monuments related to the Confederacy from their prominent perches around the city.
Besides Gen. Robert E. Lee, statues of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at the entrance of City Park and Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Mid-City and the obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place at the foot of Iberville Street will all come down.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Regardles sof what one thinks of secession, those Confederate monuments, flags, etc., are part of American history.
Those were American boys in grey and butternut, as much as those boys in blue. Our ancestors, and predecessors.
Our history, our culture, our traditions, flaws as well as successes, must be preserved.
this is ridiculous. New Orleans has for the most part been a diverse city of tradition, culture, beauty and a bedrock of music. what these fools in the city council, topped off by that classical failure Mitch Landrieu have done has accosted each and every proud Louisianian with a legacy of failure, shame and derision.
What Benjamin Butler alleged to have done to New Orleans pales by far in comparison to the foolishness perpetrated by the intellectually bankrupt fools on the council.
Maybe they can have a street funeral for the city. And just maybe nobody will show up.
I fear they are playing a version of “capture the flag”....taking the enemy’s rallying symbols before you take their ground and power. If they destroy the symbols of a previous rebellion, new or resurgent rebels will need to create new symbols.
Educate yourself. Communism didn’t exist in 1861. If the South had won the war would it have ended slavery? And if the South had won we certainly would not be The United States of America. We’d look like some Balkanized mish-mash, if we had survived that long. Would you be happy with that outcome?
Ok Johnny Reb...
I was always pro-South on the subject of the Civil War. Again, none of my family was in the country when it went down, so I don’t have a dog in the fight.
It actually took a couple resident FR mouthbreathers (those that I’m pinging know who I’m talking about) and to make me wish the South had been turned into a sheet of glass.
General Sherman: God Love Ya!!!
“...those Confederate monuments have historical value.”
I agree.
Jindal could say something. Condemn the bigotry and savagry. Instead he walks the way of most GOP politicians. They stay silent lest be called a racist!
His presidential race was a flop so why should he care anymore?
Which would you recommend?
Slavery was ended in Maryland and Missouri before the end of the war.
It’s still part of our history, and should NEVER be given up.
Take a look at a movie called “The Fighting 69th”. Watch the part where the 4th Alabama comes marching into Camp Mills (to “Dixie”) and meets up with the 69th New York Irish.
Enjoy the awesome brawl, then listen to the lecture that George Brent - playing “Wild Bill Donovan” (the real Wild Bill went on to become the director of the OSS during WWII) - gives to BOTH regiments.
That’s how it was. And how it SHOULD be.
I was looking more for something that disputed the claim that the South did not go to war to defend their system of slavery. I’m sure Hinson’s tale is interesting and he was upset over the death of his sons. But war is hell. I read that somewhere.
So DoodlePoodle you ok wit this? Yes or no.
Did this law pass after Lincoln arrested the Maryland Legislature?
With what? Removing the statues? No, I think it's idiotic.
November 1864. Since Lincoln never arrested the Maryland legislature I can't tell if it was before or after.
Remove our religion and our history! Hell we have already lost to the whatevers that are transforming this country into something I detest.
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