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Robert E. Lee

A Good Reason to Honor Robert E. Lee

By Philip Leigh

Yesterday’s melee in Washington provides good reason to honor Robert E. Lee because he demonstrated how he maintained dignity in defeat while convincing many resentful Southerners to reconcile with their former enemies. At the end… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
  • Robert E. Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

Meditations on a Couple of Old Postcards

By Cliff Page

I saw a pile of household goods on the side of the road a couple of days ago, as I was picking up a friend to take him to the store. It was a blighting… »

  • Cliff Page
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Art
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

Virginia and Alabama

By Thomas Hubert

Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight, headlight (only one),I smell the moist ancient earth rising up to greet meThis January evening that seems almost like spring.Incredible!… »

  • John Pelham
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Poetry
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Thomas Hubert
  • War for Southern Independence

Monument Avenue 1890-2020

By Patrick Seay

For the majority of my life I have had an intense interest in the history of the War Between the States. This interest germinated as a result of two very influential places that I became… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Patrick A. Seay
  • Richmond
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Heroes

A Land Without Heroes

By Duncan Killen

What if there were 15.3 million dead American soldiers? Imagine it. Legions of the unburied down rows of summer corn, strewn along riverbanks, and discarded on roadsides. And imagine if many of the boys’ bodies… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Confederate Symbols
  • Duncan Killen
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

What Lee Said About Monuments in 1869

By Ernest Blevins

A frequent argument against Confederate monuments is a “sound bite” of a quote from General Robert E. Lee in 1869 in some variation to “I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Confederate Monuments
  • Ernest Blevins
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee

“False Story” Historiography

By Gerald Lefurgy

“Madam, don’t bring your sons up to detest the United States Government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities and make your sons Americans.”  -Lee writing to a Southern mother,… »

  • Gerald Lefurgy
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern History
  • Southern Tradition
  • War for Southern Independence

Tucker and the Confederacy

By Paul H. Yarbrough

Tucker Carlson, a man who had revealed himself as a reliable reporter/journalist over the years, in my opinion, stumbled recently. His nightly show, like most, has been confronted with the contemporary left-wing anarchic news happenings.… »

  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Tucker Carlson
  • War for Southern Independence

No Comparison Between Grant and Lee

By James Ronald Kennedy

Over a century and a half has passed since Confederate States General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant. Yet, despite surrender by one and victory by the… »

  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • War for Southern Independence

The All American Perspective

By Gerald Lefurgy

An outlook is bleak when nothing worse can be said than the truth. To this end, there is no ‘sugar-coating’ the elements of obliteration, subjugation, necrosis and above all, ‘Hatred’, in all its ugly forms,… »

  • Gerald Lefurgy
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • War for Southern Independence

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