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The queen of conservative talk radio, Laura Ingraham, is eyeing a Senate run in Virginia and a challenge to Hillary Clinton's running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine. Knowledgeable sources said that several party insiders have approached the media giant to run and that she is considering it. In preparation for a bid, her business partner, Peter Anthony, has begun buying website domains for Ingraham to use should she decide to move forward. It includes: ingrahamsenate.net, ingrahamsenate.com, ingrahamforvirginia.com and ingraham2018.com. Ingraham wouldn't comment on any run. While it would be considered an uphill fight, Ingraham brings her well-known personality and several influential...

This is a "revised and extended" re-post of an article I wrote in 2011 to mark an anniversary of General Lee's death. It celebrates instead the two hundred and seventh anniversary of his birth on January 19, 1807, a happier occasion. It's a couple days early, but I don't think he would mind. We have changed as a nation, often for the worse.We, as a nation, seem to have done with heroes of General Lee's type. Yet he inspired a fledgling nation, the Confederate States of America -- young, old, rich and poor alike. Those who reminisce about him do...

There was an article by Rowan Scarborough this week in the Washington Times which claimed that the US Army War College in Pennsylvania was considering removing portraits and statues of Confederate Army leaders such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The purported reason for the possible “purge” was depicted as being some sort of statement against the CSA. Nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, the war college is conducting an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye for rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army story.During the inventory, an unidentified...

Revisionist history would remove portraits of Confederate legendsThe U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove the portraits of Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The college, nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, is doing an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye toward rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army stories. During the inventory, an unnamed official — not the commandant, Maj. Gen. Anthony A. Cucolo III — asked the administration why the college is honoring two generals...

All the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our Forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth. --Robert E. Lee Why do Americans continue to remember their past? Perhaps it is because it was a time when truth was spoken. Men and women took their stand to give us the freedoms we now enjoy. God bless those in military service, who do their duty around the world for freedom. The Hall of Fame for great Americans opened in 1900 in New York City. One thousand...

Celebrate today the birth of a great American: Gen. Robert E. Lee All the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our Forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth. --Robert E. Lee KENNESAW, Ga.--Why do Ameri- cans continue to remember their past? Maybe, because, it was a time when truth was spoken. Men and women took their stand to give us the freedoms we now enjoy. God bless those, in military service, who do their duty around the world for freedom. The Hall of Fame...

I need info. for a report that i have to do this month on Robert E. Lee. I have to wirte at least 1 page on him so any info. at all will be very helpful

<p>When the Battle of Antietam started, eighth-grade students from Wilson Middle School in Chowchilla were scattered along the rope line, all angling for an unobstructed view of the carnage.</p> <p>For those within earshot, history teacher Mike Martin was offering a running commentary.</p>

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2002--Inecom Entertainment, Inc. today announced the release of the latest entry in its documentary series on the American Civil War. "Titled Civil War Minutes - Confederate," this set of two DVD's or four videotapes totals 180 minutes and is designed for direct-to-home video as well as schools, libraries and other institutions. Whereas the original Civil War Minutes, released in 2001, featured episodes based mainly on Union soldiers and artifacts, the new production focuses on the Confederate side."'In Civil War Minutes - Confederate,' we tell the stories behind important Confederate players and battles," explained Co-writer Michael Kraus. "Although...

Hard times are bringing changes to Stratford Hall Plantation. Stratford let go 14 of its 86 employees in April. Now managers plan to close the historic mansion for much of December and January, sell a herd of Angus cattle and reduce farm operations.To increase revenues, Stratford plans an aggressive campaign to market the historic property in Westmoreland County as a site for conferences and weddings, Executive Director Thomas C. Taylor said."We have to change with the times like everybody else," Taylor said. "We're tightening our belt across the board."Taylor said the cuts are due to the declining values of Stratford's...

LEE AND HIS ARMY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, by Gary W. Gallagher. The University of North Carolina Press, 295 pages. Illustrations, maps, chapter notes, index.GEN. ROBERT E. LEE and the Army of Northern Virginia are inseparable from the history of the Confederate States of America. If this review were somehow translated into the kind of "proof of a theorem" that we all remember from high school geometry, that statement could be accepted as "given."What Gary W. Gallagher has in mind in "Lee and His Army in Confederate History" is something a little different from a geometry proof. At bottom, Gallagher accepts...

Union general called innovative and `every bit the match of Lee' MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Ask any schoolboy and he'll tell you Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher, simply using the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates.Not so, says historian Gordon Rhea, who has spent almost two decades meticulously researching and writing about the 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia."There has been a shift in Grant's reputation in the past few years," Rhea says. "I think he has been painted into a corner of being a butcher, when in...

<p>GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- The National Park Service has embarked on an effort to change its interpretive materials at major Civil War battlefields to get rid of a Southern bias and emphasize the horrors of slavery.</p> <p>The project seems particularly relevant following the furor over Republican Sen. Trent Lott's recent remarks seeming to endorse racial segregation, which forced many Americans to revisit one of the uglier chapters of the nation's history.</p>

<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) --Ask most schoolchildren and they will tell you that Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher who simply used the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates into submission.</p>

Robert E. Lee´s Birthday Which day? January 19 Earliest Observance? 1889 Demographic Practice? [official?]Southern States General Robert E. Lee's birthday is recognized by the Southern States.  During the Civil War, his brilliance as a leader was well recognized but despite his leadership qualities, the overwhelming industrial base proved too difficult to overcome.   He was a graduate of West Point and he first made a name for himself in the Mexican War.  He also commanded the attack at Harper's Ferry. He was neither a slave advocate nor a slave owner.  He was; however, a southern loyalist, dedicated to his home state...

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth. – Robert E. Lee The men and women who serve our nation in its armed forces are true American heroes. Gen. Robert E. Lee served this country valiantly and will always be a hero among the people. This article is dedicated to all the great people who have served and are presently serving to keep their country free. God bless them all!Many commemorations will be held throughout...

This week we should have remembered, and should have celebrated, the birthdays of two of America's greatest Christian soldiers, Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson. It is poor tribute to us as a country that we neglect to remember Christian men of their caliber and prefer instead to celebrate the birthdays of socialists and apostates. Douglas Southall Freeman has written of Lee that: "In early boyhood he had been drilled in his catechism by Rev. William Mead. From his youth he had lived in the spiritual atmosphere Meade had created in Northern Virginia, but had not joined any...

The Lord ActonGeneral Robert E. Lee Correspondence Bologna November 4, 1866 Sir, The very kind letter which Mrs. Lee wrote to my wife last winter encouraged me to hope that you will forgive my presuming to address you, and that you will not resent as an intrusion a letter from an earnest and passionate lover of the cause whose glory and whose strength you were. I have been requested to furnish private counsel in American affairs for the guidance of the editors of a weekly Review which is to begin at the New Year, and which will be conducted by...

He (Ted Turner) made his comments during an interview to promote Gods and Generals, a rambling and often incoherent 229-minute U.S. Civil War drama that is sympathetic to the pro-secession rebellion and makes heroes out of Confederate leaders General Robert E. Lee and Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson.

‘Gods and Generals' Succeeds ‘Chariots of Fire’ as the Christ-Honoring Film for This Generation Review by Doug Phillips Jackson: "My esposita! Come, before I leave, we must sit, read together ... a verse." Jackson finds his Bible on a shelf. Jackson: "Yes, yes, here. Corinthians. Second Corinthians, chapter 5. I have been thinking about this verse." Anna puts her hand on his, and they read it together. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." They kneel together, his...