Posted on 07/07/2020 1:18:23 PM PDT by Perseverando
Virtue Signal University
When General Lee refused President Lincoln’s commission to command the Union Forces, he specifically told President Lincoln that he could not take up arms against his own people and home, the State of Virginia.
Out of a nation of over 300 million people today, I doubt that there are even 10 people currently living here who could measure up to GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE.
If you found 10 I would probably drop dead of a heart attack.
Would that be General Pope?
I believe he was killed by artillery fire by General Sherman’s troops.
Washington and Che?
About 30 years ago, they got rid of all the southern flags that adorned both sides of the chapel. The student president also lead processions carrying a baton adorned with a small Confederate battle flag. They got rid of that, too. But there are still statues and historical markers, street names and building names all over campus that are ripe for desecration. It remains to be seen whether or not the word “South” will be removed from the University’s name. The South is evil, you know. These barbarians did, after all, outlaw the word “Dixie.”
General Lee’s contemporaries on both sides held him in the highest esteem. Millions of Southern boys (mine included) were and are named for him. I am glad I had the opportunity to visit his tomb. Will they destroy it and the magnificent statue that is above it? Is Traveller to be disinterred and his bones scattered about. This is almost too much for a Southern heart to bear.
Leonidas Polk (April 10, 1806 – June 14, 1864) was a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, US, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk. He was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. He resigned his ecclesiastical position to become a major general in the Confederate army (called “Sewanee’s Fighting Bishop”). His official portrait at the University of the South depicts him dressed as a bishop with his army uniform hanging nearby.
Polk was one of the more notable, yet controversial, political generals of the war. Recognizing his indispensable familiarity with the Mississippi Valley, Confederate President Jefferson Davis commissioned his elevation to a high military position regardless of his lack of prior combat experience. He commanded troops in the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Perryville, the Battle of Stones River, the Tullahoma Campaign, the Battle of Chickamauga, the Chattanooga Campaign, and the Atlanta Campaign. He is remembered for his bitter disagreements with his immediate superior, the likewise-controversial General Braxton Bragg of the Army of Tennessee, and for his general lack of success in combat. While serving under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston, he was killed in action in 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign.
I believe Bishop Polk was also one of the founders of the University of the South.
When will they come for Washington College in Chestertown, MD?”
Maybe Washington State, University of Washington and Washington State University will have to be renamed. Also Seattle since Chief Sealth had slaves.
Over the centuries, there have been far more non-Western countries who have owned slaves. There are slaves in Africa, slaves in the Middle East and China uses slaves for its cheap manufacturing.
Seems these folks will have to burn down the whole world to purge it.
There was a hilarious scene before a battle where Bragg told his troops to give the enemy hell. Polk added, "Now you boys give them what General Bragg said to give them."
Laughable. No one caught smallpox from a blanket.
you are full of shit.
It’s not your fault. ;-/
Thank you, buddy.
Since when do EMPLOYEES have any say in the name of whom they work for?
Talk about arrogance!!!!!
Every single one of these ‘professors’ should be fired for cause.
Another reason why TENURE is a farce.
John B. Floyd's father, John Floyd, was governor of Virginia and is the namesake of Floyd County, VA. The Floyd Counties in Kentucky, Indiana, and Georgia are named for different individuals.
This is pretty well documented, and has been for a long time. Just Google “Amherst smallpox.”
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