Robert E. Lee: Remembering An American Legend

Canada Free Press ^ | January 18, 2011 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[BigReb555]

Young people will get a school holiday in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King whose birthday is January 15th. But, will anyone tell them that January 19th is also the birthday of Robert E. Lee?

[usmcobra]

Sorry buddy but I only use one screen name and I have always admitted to being a “Troll™”(from Jim Rome’s Smack Chat) and no one has ever had therefore to expose me.

[mstar]

there is another contingent that we Rebs refer to as The Coven (coined by stand watie).

Hey guys. . . after my 2nd cup of coffee following by a Diet Dr. Pepper, I sorta kinda can comprehend this thread.

Wow a "FR Reb/Coven Good Morning Saga & Short Critique"! Awesome!

I have a question. . . who is/was stand watie? He was before my time here on the Reb threads. From the way he is spoken of, he was just plain heroic. Know Master Cowboy now walks in his shoes, but just wondering and never had the opportunity to ask.

[mstar]

there is another contingent that we Rebs refer to as The Coven (coined by stand watie).

Hey guys. . . after my 2nd cup of coffee following by a Diet Dr. Pepper, I sorta kinda can comprehend this thread.

Wow a "FR Reb/Coven Good Morning Saga & Short Critique"! Awesome!

I have a question. . . who is/was stand watie? He was before my time here on the Reb threads. From the way he is spoken of, he was just plain heroic. Know Master Cowboy now walks in his shoes, but just wondering and never had the opportunity to ask.

[usmcobra]

and it fooled so many of your confeder-buddies...

Oddly enough I borrowed the idea from stand waite.

Call it a sort of tribute to my victory over him like counting coup.

[mstar]

sorry posted twice. . . might need another Dr. DP before I post

[cowboyway]

and it fooled so many of your confeder-buddies...

You must be soooo proud....

I only use one screen name and I have always admitted to being a “Troll™"---usmcobra

Admin moderator: Why do you let self admitted trolls and leftist agitators stay on FR? Just curious....

[cowboyway]

who is/was stand watie?

The best way to understand who stand watie is/was is to search his screen name under 'users' and read a few of his replies to the coven.

[cowboyway]

Wow! Looks like you trolls win again, sump_truck!

[rockrr]

Everyone is someones "troll" - even you pokie.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

He kept his personal slave, Rev. William Mack Lee throughout the war and when William was freed, he chose to stay with REL.

Actually the William Mack Lee story was pretty evidently a hoax concocted in 1918 between an old man who was cadging for money and a newspaper man who knew how a good story when he heard it and was unable or unwilling to actually investigate it.

The fact is that not a single trace of WIlliam Mack Lee can be found attached to Lee. He isn't mentioned in any of Lee's letters, nor is he mentioned by anyone else. Douglas Southall Freeman's 4-volume 1935 biography of Lee says that he had two servants during the war: Meredith, his cook, and Perry, his body servant. These he mentions frequently in letters back to his family. Of William Mack Lee, however, not a word. Reading his pamphlet, you come to this passage, which I think illustrates what was really going on:

Still limping from a yankee bullet, an old darkey, with a grizzled beard and an honest face, hobbled into the office of the World-News at a busy hour yesterday.

"Kin you white folks gimme a little money fur my church?" he asked, doffing his tattered as he bowed.

Typewriters tickled their hurried denial.

The aged negro cocked his head on one side. "What, I ain't gwine ter turn away Ole Marse Robert's n***** is yer? You didn't know dat I was Gen. Robert Lee's cook all through de wah, did yer?" Every reporter in the office considered that introduction sufficient, and listened for half an hour to William Mack Lee, who followed General Robert E. Lee as body guard and cook throughout the Civil War. When the negro lifted his bent and broken figure from a chair to take his leave every man in the office reached into his pocket, for a contribution.

I give him full credit for spinning a good story and knowing his audience, even if it was all BS.

[rockrr]

Wow, fascinating!

If it’s a hoax, it’s a damned good one because there are multiple references to him on the Intarweb including wackypedia...thanks for the correction ;-)

[cowboyway]

Everyone is someones "troll" - even you pokie.

Typical leftist tactic; trying to excuse bad actions by implying that 'everybody does it'. You are a pathetic little urchin, punkrr.

[rockrr]

*snicker*

Typical leftist failure to understand a basic principle. You’re just not have a very good day today, are you pokie?!

[cowboyway]

I understand your leftist principles quite well, punkrr, and all your attempts at deflection are futile.

Sorry to ruin your day.

[cowboyway]

Oh, I almost forgot..

*snicker*

lol

;-)

[piroque]

usmcobra isn't banned. He just made his about page appear that way. It's part of his troll persona. ,

thanks for the heads-up on that

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I see that the Germans and the Japanese were allowed to maintain the essence of their cultures. Would you say that the South was permitted to maintain the essence of its culture?

Compared to the usual behavior of victors in civil wars, the Union was very kind and generous to the seceding states. What do you think was the essence of Southern culture? It sounds as if you agree with Alexander Stevens who said that slavery was the cornerstone of the Confederacy.

[ml/nj]

the Union was very kind and generous to the seceding states.

Have you ever thought about the title Margaret Mitchell chose for her historical novel about that time?

ML/NJ

[mac_truck]

What do you think was the essence of Southern culture?

tick, tick, tick...

[x]

all the facts/truth we need...

Looks like all the facts you need are myths and lies and at best half-truths.

Why not try to get the whole story, not just the same old trash?

also: google Dr Thomas DiLorenzo

DiLorenzo's a kook with a one-track mind -- or rather, he's a huckster who's hit on the mother lode: thousands of gullible true believers who parrot whatever he tells them.

DiLorenzo and the other Rockheadites think they have all the answers in advance and don't have to do serious research and consider opposing viewpoints.