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All the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our Forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth. --Robert E. Lee Why do Americans continue to remember their past? Perhaps it is because it was a time when truth was spoken. Men and women took their stand to give us the freedoms we now enjoy. God bless those in military service, who do their duty around the world for freedom. The Hall of Fame for great Americans opened in 1900 in New York City. One thousand...

Celebrate today the birth of a great American: Gen. Robert E. Lee All the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our Forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth. --Robert E. Lee KENNESAW, Ga.--Why do Ameri- cans continue to remember their past? Maybe, because, it was a time when truth was spoken. Men and women took their stand to give us the freedoms we now enjoy. God bless those, in military service, who do their duty around the world for freedom. The Hall of Fame...

I need info. for a report that i have to do this month on Robert E. Lee. I have to wirte at least 1 page on him so any info. at all will be very helpful

<p>When the Battle of Antietam started, eighth-grade students from Wilson Middle School in Chowchilla were scattered along the rope line, all angling for an unobstructed view of the carnage.</p> <p>For those within earshot, history teacher Mike Martin was offering a running commentary.</p>

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2002--Inecom Entertainment, Inc. today announced the release of the latest entry in its documentary series on the American Civil War. "Titled Civil War Minutes - Confederate," this set of two DVD's or four videotapes totals 180 minutes and is designed for direct-to-home video as well as schools, libraries and other institutions. Whereas the original Civil War Minutes, released in 2001, featured episodes based mainly on Union soldiers and artifacts, the new production focuses on the Confederate side."'In Civil War Minutes - Confederate,' we tell the stories behind important Confederate players and battles," explained Co-writer Michael Kraus. "Although...

Hard times are bringing changes to Stratford Hall Plantation. Stratford let go 14 of its 86 employees in April. Now managers plan to close the historic mansion for much of December and January, sell a herd of Angus cattle and reduce farm operations.To increase revenues, Stratford plans an aggressive campaign to market the historic property in Westmoreland County as a site for conferences and weddings, Executive Director Thomas C. Taylor said."We have to change with the times like everybody else," Taylor said. "We're tightening our belt across the board."Taylor said the cuts are due to the declining values of Stratford's...

LEE AND HIS ARMY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, by Gary W. Gallagher. The University of North Carolina Press, 295 pages. Illustrations, maps, chapter notes, index.GEN. ROBERT E. LEE and the Army of Northern Virginia are inseparable from the history of the Confederate States of America. If this review were somehow translated into the kind of "proof of a theorem" that we all remember from high school geometry, that statement could be accepted as "given."What Gary W. Gallagher has in mind in "Lee and His Army in Confederate History" is something a little different from a geometry proof. At bottom, Gallagher accepts...

Union general called innovative and `every bit the match of Lee' MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Ask any schoolboy and he'll tell you Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher, simply using the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates.Not so, says historian Gordon Rhea, who has spent almost two decades meticulously researching and writing about the 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia."There has been a shift in Grant's reputation in the past few years," Rhea says. "I think he has been painted into a corner of being a butcher, when in...

<p>GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- The National Park Service has embarked on an effort to change its interpretive materials at major Civil War battlefields to get rid of a Southern bias and emphasize the horrors of slavery.</p> <p>The project seems particularly relevant following the furor over Republican Sen. Trent Lott's recent remarks seeming to endorse racial segregation, which forced many Americans to revisit one of the uglier chapters of the nation's history.</p>

<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) --Ask most schoolchildren and they will tell you that Robert E. Lee was a military genius while Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher who simply used the North's advantage in men and material to bludgeon the Confederates into submission.</p>

Robert E. Lee´s Birthday Which day? January 19 Earliest Observance? 1889 Demographic Practice? [official?]Southern States General Robert E. Lee's birthday is recognized by the Southern States.  During the Civil War, his brilliance as a leader was well recognized but despite his leadership qualities, the overwhelming industrial base proved too difficult to overcome.   He was a graduate of West Point and he first made a name for himself in the Mexican War.  He also commanded the attack at Harper's Ferry. He was neither a slave advocate nor a slave owner.  He was; however, a southern loyalist, dedicated to his home state...

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth. – Robert E. Lee The men and women who serve our nation in its armed forces are true American heroes. Gen. Robert E. Lee served this country valiantly and will always be a hero among the people. This article is dedicated to all the great people who have served and are presently serving to keep their country free. God bless them all!Many commemorations will be held throughout...

This week we should have remembered, and should have celebrated, the birthdays of two of America's greatest Christian soldiers, Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson. It is poor tribute to us as a country that we neglect to remember Christian men of their caliber and prefer instead to celebrate the birthdays of socialists and apostates. Douglas Southall Freeman has written of Lee that: "In early boyhood he had been drilled in his catechism by Rev. William Mead. From his youth he had lived in the spiritual atmosphere Meade had created in Northern Virginia, but had not joined any...

The Lord ActonGeneral Robert E. Lee Correspondence Bologna November 4, 1866 Sir, The very kind letter which Mrs. Lee wrote to my wife last winter encouraged me to hope that you will forgive my presuming to address you, and that you will not resent as an intrusion a letter from an earnest and passionate lover of the cause whose glory and whose strength you were. I have been requested to furnish private counsel in American affairs for the guidance of the editors of a weekly Review which is to begin at the New Year, and which will be conducted by...

He (Ted Turner) made his comments during an interview to promote Gods and Generals, a rambling and often incoherent 229-minute U.S. Civil War drama that is sympathetic to the pro-secession rebellion and makes heroes out of Confederate leaders General Robert E. Lee and Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson.

‘Gods and Generals' Succeeds ‘Chariots of Fire’ as the Christ-Honoring Film for This Generation Review by Doug Phillips Jackson: "My esposita! Come, before I leave, we must sit, read together ... a verse." Jackson finds his Bible on a shelf. Jackson: "Yes, yes, here. Corinthians. Second Corinthians, chapter 5. I have been thinking about this verse." Anna puts her hand on his, and they read it together. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." They kneel together, his...

Sharpton to be W&L speaker BY CALVIN R. TRICE TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER May 01, 2003 LEXINGTON - Presidential hopeful the Rev. Al Sharpton will highlight the speakers' list next week for the start of Washington and Lee University's famous Mock Convention. Sharpton will speak at 4:30 p.m. next Thursday at the Lee Chapel during the spring kickoff for the 2004 Democratic Mock Convention. The kickoff is scheduled for May 7-9, W&L student organizers said. The event is part of the quadrennial, schoolwide research project that will culminate in the university's 23rd mock nomination convention in January. The project has a...

The campaign against one of the greatest Americans ever continues. The Richmond-area Boy Scouts have stripped Robert E. Lee's name from their uniforms, title, and logo. How sad, given that Lee's life, and the maxims by which he lived, are exactly what the growing generation of boys in this country needs.Everyone knows why the Scouts dropped the name, but the reason is unimportant. The important thing is the example of manhood of which the Scouts are deprived.Lee's LifeMany have used superlatives to describe Lee. Lee was "the most perfect man I have ever met ... made of different and finer...

<p>He was, at the war's end, the senior lieutenant general in the Confederate Army, Lee's trusted friend and second-in-command of the Army of Northern Virginia --- yet it was not until 1998 that a statue was erected anywhere to honor James Longstreet. This slight can be traced to his membership in the Republican Party during Reconstruction, but even more damaging to his reputation was the image created by his postwar enemies: He became a villain in Southern eyes, a scapegoat for the Confederate defeat, and one of the South's most controversial figures.</p>

The death of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Oct. 12, 1870, prompted a host of public meetings and gatherings and an outpouring of feelings about a hero of the era. In Kentucky, one of the largest gatherings took place in Louisville where two speakers were chosen to give the main talks.One was an obvious selection: John Cabell Breckinridge, a former U.S. vice president and senator, fellow Confederate general and former Confederate Secretary of War.The other speaker, however, was not so obvious in the years immediately following the war when feelings still ran high.He had been a strong Union supporter...

Stratford Hall hit by stock slumpStratford Hall Plantation is counting on a $6 million fund-raising effort to help repair financial damage caused by stock-market declines.Stratford's endowment shrank from $29 million in 1999 to about $16 million this year. The resulting loss of investment income has caused reductions in staff and programs at the historic home of the Lee family in Westmoreland County.The new fund-raising campaign has already raised $3 million that will be used to meet Stratford's operating expenses in the next three years, said Elizabeth Dunn, director of development and public relations."I'm astonished how quickly we've mobilized the community...

Excerpted with permission from April 1865: The Month That Saved America....To grasp the full horror of the march it is necessary to make it yourself. The landscape constantly changes: open fields are exasperatingly punctuated by high hedges and dense windbreaks that are impossible to see through or over or around. On the other side, they seamlessly merge into swamps, or dense, claustrophobic woods, or undergrowth so thick as to be a second forest; or, conversely, they run into long, muddy tracts, known euphemistically as Virginia quicksand. Once more, Lee pushed his men to the outer limits of human endurance. "I...