Replies: 27
| visibility 1
|
All-In [26326]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15325
Joined: 1/12/00
|
A little known fact about Robert E. Lee
Aug 23, 2017, 4:09 PM
|
|
****
*
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [111526]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 73740
Joined: 9/10/03
|
Re: A little known fact about Robert E. Lee
Aug 23, 2017, 4:10 PM
|
|
he also had a horse named renegade, or am I thinking about that idiot in Tallahassee?
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [26326]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15325
Joined: 1/12/00
|
Thanks a lot, now I won't be able to announce for ESPN.***
Aug 23, 2017, 4:14 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oculus Spirit [82035]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 17304
Joined: 1/14/17
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [52830]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 8751
Joined: 12/26/15
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [26326]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15325
Joined: 1/12/00
|
Very fitting.***
Aug 23, 2017, 4:27 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [134212]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 26383
Joined: 9/18/12
|
|
|
|
|
Legend [15492]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 18413
Joined: 12/10/14
|
BLASPHEMER!
Aug 23, 2017, 7:41 PM
[ in reply to Re: A little known fact about Robert E. Lee ] |
|
Traveler! Dammmit, Lee's horse was named Traveler.
Clearly you weren't raised in SC.
We studied all of the Confederate traito...Heroes!
|
|
|
|
|
Mascot [17]
TigerPulse: 49%
Posts: 49
Joined: 8/23/17
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [2281]
TigerPulse: 97%
Posts: 3489
Joined: 2/15/04
|
|
|
|
|
Rock Defender [71]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 62
Joined: 4/6/16
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [27180]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 16026
Joined: 10/13/08
|
Re: A little known fact about Robert E. Lee
Aug 23, 2017, 4:14 PM
|
|
|
He married into a Korean family?
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [26326]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15325
Joined: 1/12/00
|
Here is a pic of Lee fighting at the battle of Cheat Mt.
Aug 23, 2017, 4:19 PM
|
|
****
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [27366]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 26233
Joined: 9/19/11
|
Actually he was adamantly against secession and only
Aug 23, 2017, 4:24 PM
|
|
picked up his sword again when Abraham Lincoln threatened to invade his state.
In 1825 he was probably as unlikely to seceded as gentelman alive.
His father was a hero of the Revolution and LaFayette would visit him regularly when Lee was young to tell him war stories about his father and the Patriots.
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [26326]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 15325
Joined: 1/12/00
|
I think you're wrong Billy, it says it right up there in my
Aug 23, 2017, 4:31 PM
|
|
poast. The google does not lie.
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6320]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5112
Joined: 7/19/13
|
Truth
Aug 23, 2017, 7:40 PM
[ in reply to Actually he was adamantly against secession and only ] |
|
Robert E. Lee was a very noble man. Was very much against the institution of slavery, which the Civil War had little to do with. Well, little to moderate to do with. Slavery could have been ended very peacefully had that been the sole reason.
|
|
|
|
|
Legend [15492]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 18413
Joined: 12/10/14
|
Re: Truth
Aug 23, 2017, 7:45 PM
|
|
History Book.....get one!
"The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small, squabbling countries." - Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson
Also see the Compromise of 1820 as well as the Missouri Compromise of 1850. The war was about the federal governments anti-slavery beliefs and it's desire to halt the spread of Slavery, a position the Southern States refused to accept it as having such power (states rights). The States rights in question was the right to hold slaves.
The Civil War was, in fact, the primary cause of the Civil war. An industrialized North vs. an agricultural South were ancillary factors (northern tariffs on southern cotton) but Slavery was the fundamental issue.
|
|
|
|
|
Varsity [237]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 458
Joined: 2/5/02
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [27366]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 26233
Joined: 9/19/11
|
Lincoln invaded the South for one reason (which he stated)
Aug 23, 2017, 11:17 PM
[ in reply to Truth ] |
|
The South paid almost all of the federal budget from the tariffs the North imposed on their trade with Europe.
When asked why Lincoln wouldn't just let the South leave, he asked them who would pay the bills.
As usual, every war ever started was over one thing: stuff, and usually the gold stuff.
|
|
|
|
|
Starter [375]
TigerPulse: 96%
Posts: 427
Joined: 7/15/08
|
Re: Truth
Aug 24, 2017, 8:57 AM
[ in reply to Truth ] |
|
"slavery, which the Civil War had little to do with."
As a native South Carolinian who is the great great great grandson of a confederate soldier who fought alongside his father, his father who was wounded at Gettysburg... and who lost three uncles in the war... one killed at Gettysburg, one killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, and one MIA and never accounted for.... I am constantly amazed by the continued white-washing of the causes and motivations for the Civil War. Face it, our forefathers' causes were not noble, and should be judged harshly by history. To deny that the cancer on our history that was slavery was the primary motivator for, and the driving factor behind the economic issues with the tariffs (and the South's ability to pay said tariffs post-abolition) is to deny history, and thumb one's nose at facts.
You may want to read this, it sums it up pretty well.
https://chartwellwest.com/2017/05/25/an-open-apology-to-the-confederacy/
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [2111]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2835
Joined: 6/30/14
|
I've heard this from many liberal friends
Aug 24, 2017, 11:44 AM
[ in reply to Truth ] |
|
that the Civil War had nothing to do with Slavery.....well then why are they always trying to tear down Confederate Soldiers memorials and statues?
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [12505]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 10500
Joined: 1/14/11
|
POTD***
Aug 23, 2017, 4:24 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-Pro [679]
TigerPulse: 95%
Posts: 757
Joined: 1/25/05
|
Re: POTD***
Aug 23, 2017, 5:01 PM
|
|
He was uch a terrible man Lincoln offered him to command the Union troops before he sided with Virginia and the South.
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [10904]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12988
Joined: 8/4/14
|
Didn't Lee free his slaves way before US Grant did?***
Aug 23, 2017, 6:32 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Team Captain [459]
TigerPulse: 56%
Posts: 1256
Joined: 12/29/16
|
Re: A little known fact about Robert E. Lee
Aug 23, 2017, 6:39 PM
|
|
Haha, beautiful
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [60216]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 42553
Joined: 11/30/98
|
I sure hope Monte can't be traced back to him....
Aug 23, 2017, 6:44 PM
|
|
because our country's brave masked, black-clad warriors will be storming Kingsmore Stadium demanding justice.
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [50635]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 43019
Joined: 12/3/98
|
his name is really Mont E Lee***
Aug 23, 2017, 7:31 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-Conference [421]
TigerPulse: 77%
Posts: 724
Joined: 9/16/10
|
Lincoln not anti slavery
Aug 23, 2017, 9:36 PM
|
|
Fact: Lincoln did not want to abolish slavery. They had slaves in the north that were not freed. Read his words.
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,”
|
|
|
|
Replies: 27
| visibility 1
|
|
|