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Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:23 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:23 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Rebels is next, followed by OM, then Red, Blue & Grey...
Hope I'm wrong about the above...
Hope I'm wrong about the above...
This post was edited on 6/24/15 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:24 pm to Sancho Panza
I don't think our administration is THAT stupid. Getting rid of the flags and Colonel Reb is one thing. Take away those two you're taking away something that people identify themselves with.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:24 pm to cbi8
Mannnn, Sherman looks like a drunk Psychopath.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:38 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Robert E. Lee didn't fight for the south because he believed in slavery. He did it because he didn't want to attack his home state.
This is a popular myth. However, it is proven false by the letters he wrote discussing his views on slavery.
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This post was edited on 6/24/15 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:40 pm to ABearsFanNMS
Cite a reliable, published or manuscript location. Internet letter who doesn't even say who written to is questionable.
This post was edited on 6/24/15 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:44 pm to ABearsFanNMS
Didn't say he was against slavery. Just said that wasn't his main reason for fighting for the confederacy.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:53 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Lee inherited slaves, whom he freed while settling his father in laws estate.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:54 pm to ABearsFanNMS
That's my great-great-grandaddy (true story) so back the frick off, brah! Nobody talks about grandpappy rob like that.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 10:59 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
Then you should read "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters". Here is a quick synopsis via an interview on US News with the Historian:
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And Sancho read up with what he did with his wife's inherited slaves.
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And Sancho read up with what he did with his wife's inherited slaves.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:00 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
The soldiers personal cause doesn't override the fact that they were fighting for a bigger cause. My ancestors fought for the Confederacy too at Corinth and Vicksburg, we just don't sit around and celebrate it.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:03 pm to Quicksilver
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My ancestors fought for the Confederacy too at Corinth and Vicksburg, we just don't sit around and celebrate it.
I imagine that would be a tad weird if y'all did sit around and celebrate it Quick.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:04 pm to ABearsFanNMS
I have through primary sources, not the secondary source you cite.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:11 pm to Sancho Panza
Primary as compared to secondary....can I ask what you are talking about? The letter I initially referenced is his own letter to his wife....you can not get anymore primary than the man's own words. Unless you have some supernatural ability to commune with Balls Great Gran Pappy Rob, I don't see how your source is more reliable than a noted historians compilation of his personal letters?
This post was edited on 6/24/15 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:16 pm to ABearsFanNMS
Where is said letter located? To whom was it written?
Or plural as the case may be.
Or plural as the case may be.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:18 pm to Quicksilver
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The soldiers personal cause doesn't override the fact that they were fighting for a bigger cause.
Sure it does.
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:19 pm to Sancho Panza
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Where is said letter located? To whom was it written?
"For her newly published biography, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor draws on a cache of previously unknown Lee family papers, discovered in 2002 in two sturdy wooden trunks that Lee's daughter stored in a Virginia bank about a century ago. Quoting from these and other overlooked letters, Pryor presents a multifaceted man, more accessible and at the same time more puzzling than ever. He was an irrepressible flirt, and, contrary to popular belief, Lee not only believed in slavery; he was capable of treating his own slaves cruelly."
Posted on 6/24/15 at 11:32 pm to Quicksilver
Yeah well my great-great-grandaddy could beat up your great-great-grandaddy.
Posted on 6/25/15 at 12:11 am to BallstotheWesleyWall
This flick went from dramatic to comedic real quick.
Posted on 6/25/15 at 12:58 am to UMRealist
But we can all agree we don't want a magnolia to look like broccoli, right?
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