Sherman & Forrest were also brilliant. Jackson & Chamberlain were inspirational leaders in combat.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:07 pmThey were traitors. And because they lost they should by and large be consigned to that status.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:02 pmWashington was a traitor to his King & country, he fought in defense of Virginia & the other rebel North American colonies.Matnum PI wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:00 pmThere are statues of Washington because he's the father of our nation, militarily and politically. If some amazing data fell from the sky to prove that Washington was actually an English spy who was trying to destroy our nation and didn't actually do all the positive things he's preported to have done, then he gets a bullseye. Otherwise, he's safely not a target.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 11:57 am So some clarification... when does the Washington monument become part of the bullseye?
We revere him because he was on our side... & he won.
The US Army officers who resigned their commissions to fight in defense of their home states were no more traitors than Washington & fellow founding fathers. They just fought on the losing side.
But in needing to resurrect the notion of a glorious Confederacy with honorable intentions of states rights (instead of the stated cause to maintain slavery), and given that Lincoln could not be brought down and Jefferson Davis was a rather forgettable leader, RE Lee got the hero treatment and the attacks were on Grant (hated because his administrations were full in for Reconstruction). In reality Lee was competent, but unimaginative as a general, and Grant was brilliant in anticipating the mobile warfare to come in the next wars to be fought.
We used to admire them all. Now we must defame half of them as traitors, pull down their statues, or be branded as traitors ourselves.
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