Remembering Robert E. Lee: American Patriot and Southern Hero

[candycorn]

Love what happened to his house....we should do stuff like that today.

So we SHOULD pile up all the dead Afghanistan vets in front of Obama's house.
Which one? Chicago or Hawaii?

Crawford Texas would be a more appropriate place....

Do you want to celebrate Osama Bin Laden's birthday too? Lee=Bin Laden

 

[squeeze berry]

It's racist to celebrate anyone who fought for slavery.

at the time slavery was legal

bad general. Left almost 40% of his soldiers in most of his berserker battles. And why he went to Gettysburg is a mystery


Good educator though.

I agree that he made a big mistake at Gettysburg. However, he was a lot better than all the union generals.

Maybe he was somewhat competent because he was removed for 32 years of the ignorance of the south and educated in the U.S. Military.
He was smart enough to state that the southern states had no Constitutional right to secession so he wasn't a total ignorant hick.

he was better educated than you and of higher character

You sound like a complete imbecile.
So I guess all those science courses I have taken and all the technological and humanities courses I have passed were around hundreds of years ago and at the same level of discovery as now...lol.

You sound so stupid you must come from the South, unfortunately you make the smart ones look stupid also.

Lee graduated from West Point at the top of his class.

You, on the other hand, are the typical black person. You have too high of an opinion of yourself.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Robert E. Lee was a Democrat.

lol

 

[hortysir]

Love what happened to his house....we should do stuff like that today.

So we SHOULD pile up all the dead Afghanistan vets in front of Obama's house.
Which one? Chicago or Hawaii?

Crawford Texas would be a more appropriate place....

Do you want to celebrate Osama Bin Laden's birthday too? Lee=Bin Laden

You do know more have died in Afghanistan under Obama, right?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Lee put Virginia first, the Union second, and the Confederacy third, however, as is often the case,

events overwhelmed his principles.

 

[squeeze berry]

Lee put Virginia first, the Union second, and the Confederacy third, however, as is often the case,

events overwhelmed his principles.

most people today do not understand that the world was a much different place back then

 

[Roadrunner]

Robert E. Lee was a great American. He deserves a holiday

CIVIL WAR OP-ED Remembering Robert E. Lee American Patriot and Southern Hero Huntington News

Sir Winston Churchill called General Robert E. Lee, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.”

Please let me call to your attention that Monday, January 19, 2015, is the 208th birthday of Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of many Southerners. Why is this man so honored in the South and respected in the North? Lee was even respected by the soldiers of Union blue who fought against him during the War Between the States.

What is your community doing to commemorate the birthday of this great American?

General Lee’s portrait adorns the State Capitol in Atlanta where the Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans hosted their 1st Lee birthday in 1988. The SCV will host their annual Robert E. Lee birthday celebration on Saturday January 17, 2015 at Georgia’s Old Secession Capitol on Greene Street in Milledgeville. Read more at: 2015 Annual Robert E Lee Birthday Celebration

During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.

And In Lexington, Virginia events are scheduled for the birthday of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on January 16th and 17th. Read more at: Home - Lee-Jackson Day Lexington VA

Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C. , told the audience in Atlanta, Ga. during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, quote 'Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.' Unquote
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He lost.

Many suffered because of that, but, he didn't.

 

[Unkotare]

5 of the justices who made that ruling were appointed by Lincoln. What are the odds, do you suppose, that they would rule their benefactor had illegally made war on the South?

Oh, that must be why subsequent courts have overruled their...wait a minute...

 

[Freewill]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

 

[Old Rocks]

No US holiday for a man that really could have been justly prosecuted for Treason.

 

[rightwinger]

Lee took up arms against his country so that he could defend the right to hold other people as property

 

[Roadrunner]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

 

[Freewill]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

He went into a major engagement without the use of his Calvary which was his big advantage in most of his engagements.

If Grant would have been Meade at Gettysburg the war might have ended right then and there. Or at least Lee's army would have been completely destroyed.

 

[JWBooth]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

The best chance for taking Washington occurred while Beauregard was in command of the Army, but your points are correct.

 

[Roadrunner]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

He went into a major engagement without the use of his Calvary which was his big advantage in most of his engagements.

If Grant would have been Meade at Gettysburg the war might have ended right then and there. Or at least Lee's army would have been completely destroyed.

Though not as famous, Grant's victory at Vicksburg was more important to the Union cause.

It was all over once the Union gunboats could roam at will.

 

[Freewill]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

He went into a major engagement without the use of his Calvary which was his big advantage in most of his engagements.

If Grant would have been Meade at Gettysburg the war might have ended right then and there. Or at least Lee's army would have been completely destroyed.

Though not as famous, Grant's victory at Vicksburg was more important to the Union cause.

It was all over once the Union gunboats could roam at will.

Which is true. Controlling the Mississippi meant cutting off supplies to the south from the west.

 

[Roadrunner]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

He went into a major engagement without the use of his Calvary which was his big advantage in most of his engagements.

If Grant would have been Meade at Gettysburg the war might have ended right then and there. Or at least Lee's army would have been completely destroyed.

Though not as famous, Grant's victory at Vicksburg was more important to the Union cause.

It was all over once the Union gunboats could roam at will.

Which is true. Controlling the Mississippi meant cutting off supplies to the south from the west.

Control of the Tennessee system was vital to the North too.

Note, the war on the land was not won until after the war on the inland waterways was won.

Grant knew this from Day One.

The coordination between the Union Navy and Army was amazing, considering the methods of communication.

 

[rightwinger]

Love what happened to his house....we should do stuff like that today.

So we SHOULD pile up all the dead Afghanistan vets in front of Obama's house.
Which one? Chicago or Hawaii?

Obama never took up arms against the U.S. Flag.......Traitor Lee did

 

[Roadrunner]

Must say it is interesting that a man who took up arms against the US in the failed attempt to preserve slavery should even be mentioned as being honorable.

Maybe he should be honored for sending his men into a meat grinder at Gettysburg which resulted in the south losing the war for sure or at least shortened it by a long shot. But we usually don't honor failure. Most of Lee's engagement were defensive where the defense has a huge advantage, in that they didn't need to advance into gun fire. Gettysburg being a huge exception. Lee went on the offensive, huge mistake, gigantic error, and that lead to the defeat of the slave owners.

His biggest error was thinking his men invincible and they were not.

He made many errors.

His biggest error was not seizing Washington immediately.

That could have been done in the first six months.

Once the Union got organized, there was no way for a Southern victory.

And using his armies like Chinese in the human wave assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was criminally insane.

The best chance for taking Washington occurred while Beauregard was in command of the Army, but your points are correct.

Yes, I stand corrected.

That said, there was that window of opportunity, pissed away.

 

[reconmark]

You speak of the Brain yet are too stupid to comprehend a quote in simple English...you should really stay away from insinuations of relative intelligence...

You offered no quote where Lee said secession was unconstitutional.

I think you had too much purpa drank tonight...

Strange...you seem to be exceptionally dim witted tonight...lol!!!

Wow, some more jive talk from the resident ****** what a surprise. Can't say I am surprised you have yet to post anything of substance. You still haven't shown where Lee said secession was unconstitutional, or what part of the Constitution prohibits secession.

Just admit you don't have answers. But you are too stupid to realize it and have to demonize the side in history you oppose with absurd claims because you have an infantile and cartoonish view of history due to your indoctrination in the American education system. We could actually have an argument on the Civil War on constructive points, instead you want to keep pedaling this idiocy.

You aren't anything special, and are all too common among Americans. You are just a black that is all bluster with an inflated ego, a dime a dozen.

STRIKE THREE!!!!!...anybody want to help the imbecile out???

You're not even in the game, you witless baboon.

It must really suck to be made the class dunce on a thread you started...you should be used to it by now.