Posted on 01/19/2006 11:20:56 AM PST by sheltonmac
The days have long passed in this country where it could raise up a Lee OR a Jackson.
Another great article from Sheltonmac
I saw "Great Americans" and I thought the article was about Sean Hannity. ;^)
God Bless "Marse Robert" and "Stonewall" Jackson
Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...
Anybody here seen my old friend Robert?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill,
With Stonewall, Nathan and John.
I do not celebrate or acknowledge MLK day and neither does my company. It frustrates me that banks and the Post Office do.
We should however have a Reagan day.
'Has anybody here seen'
That's wonderful.
With 18 brigades (over 30,000) they crossed into Fredericksburg, then a canal and into an open field. They marched in columns 300-400 yards for 8hrs and were slaughtered like sheep. The Irish Brigade was able to get within 50yrds. Not the original stone wall along Sunken Rd., but the original remaining open field a victim to development.
The only remaining part of the original wall. During the battle it was 500yrds long as high as 6ft. and made for a perfect breastwork.
On May 2, 1863 Lee and Jackson meet for the last time at 8AM here at Furnace Rd. and Old Plank Rd.
As sunset comes and night begins to fall Jackson makes the decision to recon Old Mountain Rd. but when the 18th North Carolina fire upon stragglers from the Union, their volley hits Jackson in three places. Here is where Jackson was hit on Old Mt. Rd.
Finally, from the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA., this is the frock worn by Robert E. Lee during the signing of surrender at the McClean house. This was a brand new frock that he wore (departing from his customary garb) because he wanted to depart wearing the uniform of a Confederate General. That is his saber and scabbard which the display said was never offered during the surrender nor did Grant ever request it. Finally, the pen he signed with.
THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE by Abram Joseph Ryan (1839-1894)
Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright,
Flashed the sword of Lee!
Far in the front of the deadly fight,
High o'er the brave in the cause of Right
Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light,
Led us to Victory!
Out of its scabbard, where, full long,
It slumbered peacefully,
Roused from its rest by the battle's song,
Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong,
Guarding the right, avenging the wrong,
Gleamed the sword of Lee!
Forth from its scabbard, high in the air
Beneath Virginia's sky--
And they who saw it gleaming there,
And knew who bore it, knelt to swear
That where that sword led they would dare
To follow--and to die!
Out of its scabbard! Never hand
Waved sword from stain as free,
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for a brighter land,
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand,
Nor cause a chief like Lee!
Forth from its scabbard! How we prayed
That sword might victor be;
And when our triumph was delayed,
And many a heart grew sore afraid,
We still hoped on while gleamed the blade
Of noble Robert Lee!
Forth from its scabbard all in vain
Bright flashed the sword of Lee;
'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again,
It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain,
Defeated, yet without stain,
Proudly and peacefully!
Don't kid yourself, we've got Americans today as great as these two men. It's just a lot harder to hear about them. Thanks to the lamestream media!!!!
I have noticed the coverage of Lee's birthday is lighter than previous years.
That's wonderful.
I wish the very nice pic of Nathan Bedford Forrest had come out, but that's the potluck you take when you GiggleSearch a pic. And it would have been nice if I could have worked Pat Cleburne in, [Stonewall's middle name was in fact *John*] but you get the idea.
. . . although, as my grandmother remarked, General Forrest was someone that you could not POSSIBLY ask to dinner ( . . . and if you had known my grandmother you'd understand why. She'd kill Forrest, or he'd kill her.)
Please! Do not dignify their opinion of themselves even by using the derogitive variant of that particular term.
They act like the enemy media, and should be so designated for so long as they continue.
up here we celebrate gen logan day.
in the mid-nineties they decided that one of the main roads in town needed to be changed from Logan st to dr. martin luther king jr blvd. it was said for a long time that the two were completely interchangeable and either could be used. we figured that since the street names were interchangeable, then that must mean the holiday was also.
incidently, they apparently aren't interchangeable any longer, all written references to logan are gone.
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