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toppick08
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
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toppick08
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What a cruel thing is war... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
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Larry Gude
Strung Out
That's...
...because you don't know anything about Robert E. Lee and the age and he grew up in. Soldiers, even to this day, the good ones, regard war as a horror, perhaps THE horror, yet sometimes necessary evil therefore it is best that we win, therefore we better be good at it.
The fault I have with Lee is that he broke his oath to the nation that educated him, employed him and that he had served faithfully for many years. He fought for his state. Not for the confederacy, for his state.
I find that quote rather ironic coming from a General.
...because you don't know anything about Robert E. Lee and the age and he grew up in. Soldiers, even to this day, the good ones, regard war as a horror, perhaps THE horror, yet sometimes necessary evil therefore it is best that we win, therefore we better be good at it.
The fault I have with Lee is that he broke his oath to the nation that educated him, employed him and that he had served faithfully for many years. He fought for his state. Not for the confederacy, for his state.
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toppick08
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Maryland My Maryland.....
The poem was a result of events at the beginning of the American Civil War. During the secession crisis, President Abraham Lincoln (referred to in the poem as "the despot" and "the tyrant") ordered federal troops to be brought to Washington, D.C. to protect the capital. Many of these troops were brought through Baltimore City, a major transportation hub. There was a lot of Confederate sympathy in Maryland at the time and riots ensued as the troops came through Baltimore in April 1861. Several people were killed in the Baltimore riots, including a friend of James Ryder Randall. Randall, a native Marylander, was teaching at Poydras College in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, at the time and, moved by the news of his friend's death, wrote the nine-stanza poem, "Maryland, My Maryland". The poem was a plea to his home state of Maryland to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. The poem contains many references to the Mexican-American War and Maryland figures in that war (many of whom have fallen into obscurity). It was first published in the New Orleans Sunday Delta on 26 April 1861.
The poem was quickly turned into a song by putting it to the tune "Lauriger Horatius" and became instantly popular in Maryland and throughout the South. It was sometimes called "the Marseillaise of the South." Confederate States Army bands played the song after they crossed into Maryland territory during the Maryland Campaign in 1862.[4]
Larry Gude
Strung Out
And...
...this has what to do with Lee's betrayal of the oath he took?
Maryland My Maryland.....
The poem was a result of events at the beginning of the American Civil War. During the secession crisis, President Abraham Lincoln (referred to in the poem as "the despot" and "the tyrant") ordered federal troops to be brought to Washington, D.C. to protect the capital. Many of these troops were brought through Baltimore City, a major transportation hub. There was a lot of Confederate sympathy in Maryland at the time and riots ensued as the troops came through Baltimore in April 1861. Several people were killed in the Baltimore riots, including a friend of James Ryder Randall. Randall, a native Marylander, was teaching at Poydras College in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, at the time and, moved by the news of his friend's death, wrote the nine-stanza poem, "Maryland, My Maryland". The poem was a plea to his home state of Maryland to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. The poem contains many references to the Mexican-American War and Maryland figures in that war (many of whom have fallen into obscurity). It was first published in the New Orleans Sunday Delta on 26 April 1861.
The poem was quickly turned into a song by putting it to the tune "Lauriger Horatius" and became instantly popular in Maryland and throughout the South. It was sometimes called "the Marseillaise of the South." Confederate States Army bands played the song after they crossed into Maryland territory during the Maryland Campaign in 1862.[4]
...this has what to do with Lee's betrayal of the oath he took?
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toppick08
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The "nation" was an experiment Larry, you know that.
...He took his oath on the Bible, so he was a sinner....
Larry Gude
Strung Out
What...
...THAT have to do with breaking the oath he took?
Robert E. Lee, to me, is one of the all time great Americans...except for one small, tiny little problem.
The "nation" was an experiment Larry, you know that.
...THAT have to do with breaking the oath he took?
Robert E. Lee, to me, is one of the all time great Americans...except for one small, tiny little problem.
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toppick08
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...THAT have to do with breaking the oath he took?
Robert E. Lee, to me, is one of the all time great Americans...except for one small, tiny little problem.
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.....I'll leave this alone....