Posted on 01/17/2015 2:31:16 PM PST by BigReb555
During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.
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A great American. I have Lee blood in my veins.
I am just curious, how many Southern men were convicted of treason? Why not? The answer would shut up those that called Southerners treasonous. Samuel Chase knew he could not win a case of treason against Alfred Bledsoe in a court of law.
Air Combat USA...? You mean those little Italian trainers were you get to set next to a instructor and play Top Gun? Your a real killer their bucky! I almost pooped my pants laughin. That’s so California.
Quick answer the phone its Top Gun. :-)
The shelling of a military target that happens to have civilians co located is not a war crime. Had Pemberton thrown in the towel earlier, the siege and subsequent shelling would have not been required.
Good answer.
Right on. My Dad’s ancestors rode with McNeil’s raiders and captured General Crook. I have the Whitney Dragoon revolver which was supposedly General Crook’s sidearm and has been handed down through our family.
The code of chivalry included going to your sworn liege and telling him that you could not hold to your oath any longer and asking for release.
Lincoln could have ordered the Southern military arrested in the early days.
LOL’s ... last flight I flew I called over the intercom to the passengers to hold on to their drinks .....
LOL! Its tough to move that drink cart down the aisle in turbulence. :-)
May this post not be infected by petty vitriolic remarks and may even old, backward, redneck rebels like myself raise a toast to our beloved Federal government and to that has become of America since Appomatox.
Unless you’ve flown with them I suggest you hold your comments ... BTW, those little Italian trainers just happen to be close air support for some countries ... FAA Cert.Load Factor -3/+6 g’s .... I’d like to see you handle that, punkin without blacking out or screaming for your mommie.
Mostly the CA’s are in the back slamming down a few, and me with them ... LOL
Call Mr. GG2 back when you have a 21 passenger plane at 200 ft off the end of the airstrip and the right engine hand grenades. That’s when you hear a little girl screaming and realize its you. :-) What about that soaring invite. 1000 mile non stop cross country. Interested? Nah.
You’re too funnaie ... :)
Hell jellybean the Swiss soaring plane I took to Angels 39 is rated 6g+ or -. You want to come play in my sky? Bet you don’t have your first diamond (WSA) do you?
Let me know when you run out of lift ...
Lee described himself as not wanting to make war on his neighbors. It's also significant how important it was, in those times before the nationalization of everything, that your first loyalty was to your State. After all, the union itself is an arrangement constructed by the States–not the other way around.
Honor is at issue either way, which is why in charity we have to grant to Lee that the decision was legitimately difficult. It's impossible to read a biography of him, long or short, and conclude that honor wasn't important to him, or that he wasn't a man of virtue. That's probably why he was revered throughout the world after the war.
Bottom line is he did it .... he took an oath at the academy ...
Did it now?
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