Posted on 09/08/2021 6:31:39 AM PDT by Cecily
Watch a livestream of the Lee statue in Richmond being removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue.
The stream, provided by VPM, will begin at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, and for the first hour the stream "will also feature relevant photos and footage related to the removal of the monument," according to a news release from the state agencies overseeing the project.
(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...
Which is why when President Trump is back in place, he’s going to have sack everyone above the rank of Major/Lt. Commander.
Perhaps they were discussing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=403Lr-TiB7c
Maybe substitute “Ulysses”?
Slavery was replaced by Share cropping as practiced in some places it was not much above slavery. Tractors and other mechanical farming ended that. So in a rough sense slavery lasted till the 1930s.
Robert E Lee was a traitor according to you?
Pathetic beyond words.
“Attacking your ancestry personally”?? You mean she’s talking badly about your great great great grandpappy who you never met and know next to nothing about? How far back does your ancestry go that should be venerated?
My father-in-law spoke the same way about General Rose. My wife's sister was born on March 30, the same day that General Rose was killed. Every year at breakfast on March 30, my wife's dad would come to the table and say, “You all know what today is.” And my wife's sister would be beaming, “Today is one of the saddest days in history, the day that the greatest General ever was killed in combat.” and then he would add, “Oh and by the way... it is your birthday isn't it Esther?”
“ There is another thread on page one that implies it will be cut to pieces…”
One article stated it was cut in half at Lee’s waist to facilitate transport of the large statue.
Let’s see. Led a secessionist rebellion to prop up and promote an inhumane and immoral institution? Yep, traitor sounds like a good word.
First of all, I’m not female so knock it off. Second, I was never anti Trump. I told my brother early on that not only would he win the nomination but he’d likely win the election too. So either you have me mistaken for somebody else, or you’re a flat out liar.
Third, I’m not attacking anyone’s ancestry. But facts are facts, and Southerners should acknowledge them. No one alive today had anything to do with slavery. So lose the Strawman arguments too. I’m anything but PC.
And Grant was a better general than Lee.
No, the flat base beneath the hooves was removed by grinding the bolts that held it to the massive base it stood on. The figure remained intact.
I get what you mean, but steam traction engines had existed since the 1850s and probably in solid usage by the 1870s.
And there were other great advances. Such as Cyrus McCormick’s reaper and John Deere’s steel plow. The Industrial Revolution included much of what we think as just “agricultural”.
No, the point is you need to know the WHOLE truth, not the half-truths that BLM and other US-haters try to browbeat us (libel us) with as if it’s THE WORST THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD EVER.
Because, sorry, it includes the US, not just the CS. Or did you think that Yankee states were always non-slavery?
No Thanks,
I don’t like to see our history destroyed by left wing freakin idiots .
Photo of the top half of the statue is here:
https://apnews.com/article/robert-e-lee-statue-virginia-removed-92955a351d9fda6319f379ddc28df8a0
The statue was taken down whole and then later cut in half.
It is tragic to have our very own Cultural Revolution. Our leaders surrendered our history, good and bad, into nothingness. I’m happy to be old.
Except, of course, it changed the relationship of the states to the Federal government to the worst.
OMG. Butchered. I’m sure it will be welded back together, but it gives me the creeps to see that.
Slavery is heinous. So is tyranny. We have a great deal of the latter right now; yet, nobody seems ready to lift a finger in order to stop it. What happened 180 years ago doesn't have the urgency of what we face right now in our Nation.
Damn it I’m not female!
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One thing about the Freeman Lee bio: he wrote it with the "fog of war" in mind. Most of the histories I read describe battles as if the commanders of both sides know as much about the disposition of all the forces as we do. Freeman would tell us Lee's plans and actions based solely on what Lee thought was in front of him. It wasn't until the summation that he would explain the details of what was on the other side.
The Flexner books were similar. In the first volume, when Washington had not gone very far afield from Virginia, he only describes Washington's view of the world as a Virginian. We forget that people in those times were less familiar with the other states than we are today.
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