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Col. Robert E. Lee joins the CSA 150 years ago today
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Posted on 04/20/2011 4:48:12 PM PDT by central_va
1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army. Two days earlier he had been offered command of the Union army.
TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; csa; rel; republic; robertelee; south
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One of the greatest leaders this country has ever known joins the Army of the last great republic on earth.
To: central_va
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posted on
04/20/2011 4:49:22 PM PDT
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gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: central_va
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posted on
04/20/2011 4:50:34 PM PDT
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gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: central_va
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posted on
04/20/2011 4:54:08 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: central_va
“...joins the Army of the last great republic on earth.”
You should get a job writing comedy.
To: gorush; rightwingextremist1776; Rebelbase; mstar; mojitojoe; Idabilly; cowboyway
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posted on
04/20/2011 4:55:57 PM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: trumandogz
You should get a job writing comedy.You should get a life, Lincoln lover.
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posted on
04/20/2011 4:57:10 PM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
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posted on
04/20/2011 4:58:52 PM PDT
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DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
RE: your last painting. The Cashtown Hotel (now the Cashtown Inn) is still there and looks pretty much the same. While a student at Gettysburg College, I dated a gal that lived about 100 yards from it.
Supposedly it's haunted.
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:02:05 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; StoneWall Brigade
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:02:05 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: central_va
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:05:20 PM PDT
by
DwFry
(Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; central_va
Robert E. Lee was a great general and an upstanding, fine Christian gentleman. The Kappa Alpha fraternity designed Mr. Lee as their Spiritual Founder for his chivalry and conduct in both war and peace.
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:07:30 PM PDT
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: Joe 6-pack
If those had been Sherman’s bummers, there would have only been a smoldering wreck left of that hotel.
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:07:37 PM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
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04/20/2011 5:09:59 PM PDT
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iowamark
To: iowamark
“I have been unable to make up my mind to raise my hand against my native state, my relations, my children and my home,” Lee wrote.
You made the right decision Marse Lee.
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04/20/2011 5:14:02 PM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Nope. Cashtown’s too small. The smoldering wreck was left at Chambersburg, about 20 miles west of Cashtown.
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:14:32 PM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: central_va
Supporter of his state. Traitor to his oath.
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:15:25 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:16:44 PM PDT
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DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Joe 6-pack
During the early days of the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, a Virginia cavalry brigade under Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkins occupied the town and burned several warehouses and Cumberland Valley Railroad structures and the bridge at Scotland. From June 24–28, 1863, much of the Army of Northern Virginia passed through Chambersburg[40][41] en route to Carlisle and Gettysburg, and Robert E. Lee established his headquarters at a nearby farm.Hardly up to Shermanesque standards.
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posted on
04/20/2011 5:18:29 PM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
The headline is factually incorrect.
Lee resigned from the US Army on April 20.
He accepted command of all VA state forces on April 23.
He did not become part of the Confederate army until June 8, when VA state forces were mustered into the Confederate army.
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