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victusinveritas · 3 months

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#robert e lee #moral cowardice #web du bois

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perseuspixl · 8 days

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So that we don't forget;

Transcript of Donald's lection / free style nonsensical Gettysburg rant.

Never fight uphill me boys!

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""Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. The battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable. I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many ways. It, it represented such a big portion of of success of this country. Gettysburg, wow. I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And, uh, the statement of Robert E. Lee, who 's no longer in favour. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favour. "Never fight uphill, me boys. Never fight uphill." They were fighting uphill. He said, wow, that was a big mistake. He lost his great General. And, uh, they were fighting. "Never fight uphill me boys! But it was too late."" - Donald J. Trump

#republicans #gop #usa #america #trump #donald trump #democrats #politics #activism #us politics #gettysburg #robert e lee #american history #maga republicans #maga gop

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rebelyells · 3 months

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It’s Lee - Jackson Day. Still an official holiday in Virginia hearts and minds!

#civil war #robert e lee #stonewall jackson #southerners #confederate #states rights #history #gravestones #confederacy #virginia #alabama #georgia

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pookiestheone · 7 days

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Robert E Lee

#Vintage Men #Robert E Lee

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allysah · 8 days

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shoutout to dan sickles for not being in gettysburg (1993) maybe it’s for the better

#gettysburg (1993)#american civil war #acw #…here we go #john reynolds #john buford #arthur fremantle #james longstreet #george gordon meade #daniel sickles #winfield scott hancock #george pickett #tom chamberlain #joshua lawrence chamberlain #jeb stuart #lewis armistead #robert e lee #shitpost #you can tell there’s a quality drop on some of these

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thomaswaynewolf · 5 months

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In far west Texas and eastern New Mexico, there is a land so flat you’ll swear, if you squint hard enough into the infinite horizons, that you can see the back of your head. This treeless, sand dune, canyon and grass filled country stretches some fifty thousand square miles of land that used to be called The Great American Desert but today, is called The Llano Estacado or the High Staked Plains. In the deep past, it was home to Ground Sloths, Mammoths, and Bison before Clovis, Apache, and then the Comanche. The Spanish explored it, the New Mexicans hunted buffalo on it, the Americans fought the Indians on and around it. Coronado, Oñate, Kit Carson, and Robert E Lee all travelled across or around it’s flat emptiness.

In this Roadrunner exclusive episode of the American Southwest Podcast, I cover all of that and a whole lot more as I uncover the Tierra Incognita that is El Llano Estacado. I discuss what it looks like, how it distorts the mind, the creatures that live on it, the violent weather, the history of the American Indians including the mysterious Teya, the Spanish, The French, The English, the New Mexicans, the Comancheros, the Contrabandistas, the Ciboleros, the Texans, and finally, the Americans. I introduce important Southwestern Characters, animals, peoples, cultures, and battles. I quote from great authors who wrote fantastic books about the place that only those who hunted the bison, and those that hunted the bison hunters ever dared to venture into.

This is the first of many exclusive episodes for the Subscribers or Roadrunners and at 3 hours and 30 minutes, I hope that it satisfies everyone’s desire for awesome and exciting information on the American Southwest. Thank y’all for subscribing and listening.

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#el llano Estacado #my podcast #Thomas Wayne Riley #the American Southwest #Texas #New Mexico #history #Comanche #Apache #Spanish #American #French #Coronado #Oñate #Robert e Lee #Mexico

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madame-helen · 6 months

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History is repeating itself...

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chaotic-archaeologist · 10 months

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I just checked, ao3 has no lee/grant fic. There are a couple people who are really into Ulysses Grant/William tecumseh Sherman. Now you know

There is actually one Grant/Lee fic. But yes, the Grant/Sherman pairing is much more popular.

-Reid

#he speaks #american civil war #us grant #robert e lee

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grants-blue-eyed-stare · 3 months

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You know, you know 🤭

#grantcore #ulysses s grant #us grant #american civil war #acw #civil war #Robert E Lee #it fits him too

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warsofasoiaf · 2 months

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We know that just prior to the outbreak of the US civil war, Robert E Lee was summoned to Washington and offered command of the US army in putting down the southern rebels and that he turned down the offer because it meant fighting against his beloved Virginia. I have read your previous comments on Lee being too traditional in his mindset of warfare. So my question is this, had Lee accepted the role, do you imagine he would have lasted long as overall commander or would he have been replaced?

Given that his early performance was a rather unimpressive failure at Cheat Mountain, I think he would have been replaced at the top the same way Irwin McDowell was.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#us civil war #history #robert e lee

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vox-anglosphere · 8 months

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Although the South surrendered in April, the US Civil War did not end officially until 20 August 1865. The paintings depict General Ulysses S Grant and General Robert E Lee meeting in Appomatox, Virginia

#US Civil War #American history #On this day #20 August 1865 #Ulysses S Grant #Robert E Lee #Appomatox #Virginia #USA

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blueiskewl · 6 months

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Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue

Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation

The controversial bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stood for nearly a century in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down so that it may someday be transformed into a public art installation.

On Saturday, at a foundry in an undisclosed location in the American South, workers cut the infamous figure into small pieces, then fed those pieces into a 2,250-degree furnace. They poured the metal into molds for ingots, or rectangular bars, imprinted with the words “Swords Into Plowshares.” That’s the name of the project that will transform the divisive monument into a new piece of public art.

Only a small group of people, including a handful of journalists, was allowed to watch the melting. They were invited on the condition that they didn’t disclose the name or location of the foundry—or the identities of its workers—over fears of retaliation.

“The risk is being targeted by people of hate, having my business damaged, having threats to family and friends,” says the foundry’s owner, a Black man, to the Washington Post’s Teo Armus and Hadley Green.

Even so, the man added, “When you are approached with such an honor, especially to destroy hate, you have to do it.”

One particularly poignant moment occurred when foundry workers removed the statue’s face from the rest of the head.

“A man in heat-resistant attire pulled down his gold-plated visor, turned on his plasma torch and sliced into the face of Robert E. Lee,” writes Erin Thompson, an art historian at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments, in a guest essay for the New York Times. “The hollow bronze head glowed green and purple as the flame burned through layers of patina and wax. Drops of molten red metal cascaded to the ground.”

The 21-foot-tall statue’s journey to this point was a long and complicated one. Commissioned in 1917 and installed in 1924, it loomed over a downtown Charlottesville park for decades.

In 2017, amid a broader national debate over Confederate monuments, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the statue’s removal. During the “Unite the Right” rally, a man drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring many others.

After years of legal battles, the statue finally came down in July 2021. The city donated it to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which has been responsible for it ever since and leads the Swords Into Plowshares project.

Organizers had wanted to melt down the statue sooner, but they waited until a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the plan.

Because of the statue’s size, the melting process will take weeks. Once that work is finished, project organizers will move on to the next phase of their plan: choosing an artist who will transform the metal into something new.

“Humpty Dumpty couldn’t be put back together again,” said Reverend Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister in Charlottesville who spoke at the melting ceremony, per NPR’s Debbie Elliott. “We still have a lot of work to do, but this statue that has cost us so much, so much violence, so much hurt, so much bloodshed—it’s gone. And it’s never going to be put back together the way it was.”

By Sarah Kuta.