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Old Grist Mill Road, Appomattox, Virginia.
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Old Grist Mill Road, Appomattox, Virginia.
Bell on a pole, Appomattox Courthouse National Historical Park, Virginia, 2017.
More Virginia Counties Join 2A Sanctuary Movement
More Virginia Counties Join 2A Sanctuary Movement
Virginia counties are getting their backs up after the Nov 3 election went “blue.” Now more counties are joining the 2nd amendment sanctuary movement- whether they’ve made it formal or not…yet. What started in Campbell Countyhas now spread to: Patrick County, Appomattox County, Amherst County, Franklin County, Lee County, Pittsylvania County, Charlotte County, and Carroll County. All of those…
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VIEW FROM NORTH - LeGrand House, State Route 631, Appomattox, Appomattox County, VA
Pamplin Road, Pamplin, Virginia.
Pamplin Road, Pamplin, Virginia.
View Through Central Hall Looking Toward Rear Outbuildings, McLean House, Appomattox Courthouse, 2016.
It was in this house that the terrorist and traitor Robert E. Lee surrendered at the end of the War of Southern Aggression (aka Civil War). For the future of the United States it is unfortunate that Lee was not given the usual punishment for terrorists and traitors in the 19th century (and his followers treated likewise). Lee was a capable military leader, able to organize some of the most hideous acts of terrorism ever undertaken on US soil. If he had refused to lead the army of the southern aggressors, it is likely that many fewer people, civilian and military, would have died. Today all too many idolize the man and have forgotten that the South lost that war, one it started in what proved a futile effort to maintain the “peculiar institution” of slavery. As we saw a few days ago in Charlottesville (about an hour and a half drive to the north of this site), many deplorables still revere the hideous situation of the ante-bellum South where rich white men dictated all and non whites knew their place (as slaves).
Chandelier and Framed Photograph, Woodson House, Appomattox National Historical Park, 2016.