Posted on 01/19/2013 2:20:42 PM PST by BigReb555
General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are forever memorialized and remembered along with Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the larger than life carving at “Stone Mountain Memorial Park” near Atlanta, Georgia.
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During the month of January students, teachers, parents, Joe and Jane America and the world will hear praise and tribute to the late Civil Rights leader and Baptist Pastor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia…. But, will equal time be given to two more great Americans, General Stonewall Jackson and General Robert E. Lee, who were also born in January?
A portrait of Robert E. Lee adorns the Georgia State Capitol where the Sons of Confederate Veterans held their first Lee birthday celebration in 1988.
The Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans will sponsor the 26th Annual Robert E. Birthday in Milledgeville, Georgia on the actual day of Lee’s birthday, Saturday, January 19, 2013. A march from the Old Governor’s mansion to Georgia’s Old State Capitol will begin at 10:45 AM.
General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are forever memorialized and remembered along with Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the larger than life carving at “Stone Mountain Memorial Park” near Atlanta, Georgia.
The Stonewall Brigade Camp 1296 Sons of the Confederate Veterans of Lexington, Virginia is preparing to host the 2013 Lee-Jackson Day events to be held January 18-19, 2013. Read more at: http://stonewallbrigade.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/16184579-lee-jackson-day-2013 Be part of a Lee-Jackson event near you!
May 10, 2013, will mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Stonewall Jackson who was accidentally shot by Confederate pickets at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. General Jackson survived with the loss of an arm, but died of complications from pneumonia eight days later. The War Between the States Sesquicentennial, 150th Anniversary, continues through 2015. Read more at: http://www.150wbts.org/
Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 at Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia and Stonewall Jackson was born on January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia.
General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is considered by Military historians as one of the most gifted tactical commanders in United States history. He was General Robert E. Lee’s right hand during many battles and…. When Stonewall Jackson passed away, General Robert E Lee was quoted as saying "Jackson has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right".
Lee graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1829, second in his class and without a single demerit and Jackson graduated from West Point in 1946, 17th in a class of 59 students.
Robert E. Lee wed Mary Anna Randolph Custis in June 1831 and Stonewall Jackson married twice. Jackson’s first wife was Elinor Junkin (1824-1854), who died shortly after giving birth to a stillborn son. His second wife, Mary Anna Morrison (1831-1915), was the mother of Julia Laura (1862-1889), the only Jackson child to reach adulthood.
Both men fought valiantly in the War with Mexico. Lee was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec and Jackson just graduating from West Point in 1846 joined the 1st US Artillery as 2nd Lieutenant and served under General Winfield Scott.
Robert E. Lee was appointed superintendent of West Point in 1852.
Stonewall Jackson taught at Virginia Military Institute beginning on August 13, 1851. He taught natural and experimental philosophy (related to modern day physics and including physics, astronomy, acoustics, optics, and other scientific courses).
General Winfield Scott offered Robert E. Lee command of the Union Army in 1861, but he refused. Lee would command the legendary Army of Northern Virginia for the Confederacy.
General Stonewall Jackson secured great victories at the Battles of Manassas, Antietam and at Fredericksburg.
Robert E. Lee was called Marse Robert, Uncle Robert and Marble Man.
General Jackson earned his nickname “Stonewall” at the First Battle of Manassas in July 1861 when he rushed his troops forward to close a gap in the line against a Union attack. Upon observing Jackson, one of his fellow generals reportedly said, "Look, men, there is Jackson standing like a stone wall!"-Jackson was commissioned a major general in October 1861.
Robert E. Lee died of a heart attack at 9:30 on the morning of October 12, 1870, at Washington-Lee College and is buried at Lee Chapel.
Jackson’s body laid in state at the Governor's Mansion in Richmond for the public view, and he was then moved to be buried in 1863 at the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia.
Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s last words were: “Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.”
God bless these men, our nation’s heroes!
I always remember Robert E Lee’s birthday on the third Monday of January. By strange coincidence, I always seem to get the day off!
To we Yankees Lee and Jackson are the noble enemies-a concept lost about 1914 through 1918 when it was replaced by the concept of the “evil enemy” in order to cater to the demands of the democratic mob.
To we Yankees Lee and Jackson are the noble enemies-a concept lost about 1914 through 1918 when it was replaced by the concept of the “evil enemy” in order to cater to the demands of the democratic mob.
I still tear up when I read quotes from Lee and Stonewall Jackson.....much the same as Washington and Jefferson.
Dixie Outfitters has a cool t-shirt of the Stone Mountain carving: http://dixieoutfitters.com/dixie_store/view_details?department_id=35&item_id=21427
IMHO the reverence toward Jackson gives short shrift to James Longstreet. Longstreet had a better understanding of the changes happening in warfare, and the omportance they had in strategic thinking. In short, he was a “modern” general in the mold of Grant, but was the victim of character assasination after the war, particularly by some officers who tried to lay the blame for the disaster of Picket’s charge on him rather than Lee. Many also called him a traitor to the South for publishing a letter calling on his fellow Southerners to accept defeat at the judgment of God and reconcile with the North for the sake of their future. But the everyday soldiers knew better. When he attended a reunion of the Army years after he was greeted with a standing ovation.
No offense but it seems this exact thread title is posted every month.
Once a month sounds about right!!!
I suggest everyone read Viscount Garnet Wolseley’s writings about Lee.
Wolseley was one of the greatest British soldiers of all time and he clearly thought Lee was the best person he ever met and by quite a margin.
Have been to Stone Mountain many times.
Lee was a very great man and soldier, who unfortunately saw it as his duty to fight for a bad cause. He fulfilled his duty with honor and was respected by his foes.
Jackson was also a great soldier, but was a very strange man.
I too have been to Stone Mountain many times (100s), which is not surprising as I have lived within ten miles of the park almost all my life.
When I was a kid, and before the area became a State Park, my Dad would drive us kids to the top on our birthdays. It gets pretty steep toward the end of the drive up. Great memories.
The carving is huge; it dwarfs Rushmore.
I remember General Lee’s birthday every year because it’s also my Mom’s birthday. She would be ninety today.
Love you, Mom.
His cause was a noble as General Grant's. More sad is the fact the cause was honorable and history books were rewritten about the real issues that lead to the war. The north was not innocent either nor for that matter a friend of black people. The Civil War was an industrial war backed by industrialist on both sides with the issue of slavery in the north used as a tool for economic advantage and a catylist for justifing the war to the people.
Lincoln was not the wise and caring benevolent to blacks person history portrays him to be either. He was a segregationist who's goal was sending slaves back to their homelands after the war to those who sold them here to start with. Lincoln was an industrial puppet a man who's on finances were bleak and political career rather limited up till POTUS.
The northern states say slavery as a liability or something they could give up in exchange for limiting and stunting the upcoming industrialized southern states also who were building their infrastructure on the backs of slaves just as the north had done.
Lincoln ended states rights and started this nation on the destructive path of a strong central federal government of which the abuses are rampant that we live under today. Lincoln did no one any real favors except his backers.
The Generals of of the north & south just a few years before were in academy together and friendships established and some later renewed after the Civil War. To call the Civil War a war to free to free slaves does it and those who fought on both sides a huge injustice. Slavery would not have lasted another decade or two in the south due to automation much the same way tractors replaced mules. Mules had to be fed, sheltered, and cared for. Yea a harsh comparison on my part but the economic reality of it just as it had happened in the at the time of the Civil War developed and industrialized north. On the war kept slavery alive and well into the almost mid 1950's in the form of economical slavery both in the north and the south.
Grant’s term as president has gone down as one of the, if NOT THE, most corrupt admin in history.
He brought his treachery into the White House & it was a pure reflection of his character.
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Nah Grant was a saint compared to LBJ, Willie, and Zero.
I compliment you on your devastatingly witty repartee.
BTW Bragg had issues also. Like huge ego issues. That lead to his downfall on the battlefield. He had good field officers but didn’t listen to them. Look up Major General John P McCown CSA. McCown showed him up and Bragg got mad.
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