#robertelee

[whencyclopedia]

A map of the American Civil War (1861–1865), a nationwide conflict sparked by the secession of eleven Southern states following Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860. The Confederacy, founded on the preservation of slavery, clashed with the Union over secession, federal authority, and emancipation. The war opened with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 and quickly spread across multiple...

[gilbertkingelisa]

General Lee #History #RobertELee #BattleofGettysburg #SuchABloodyWar #Sun #GeneralLee #Pennsylvania #MilitaryEngineer #Gettysburg #Sky #Trees #Statue #Photography #PeoplefromVirginia #Commander #ConfederateStates #Fall #Monuments #AfterTheRain #CivilWar #Battlefield #Confederate #AmericanHistory #MexicanAmericanWar #GilbertKingElisa (at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU00vQElvk0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[the-fact-site]

Helen Keller was related to Robert E. Lee. Her paternal grandmother was second cousins with him. #FACT

[omniatlas]

North America 155 years ago today: Surrender of Army of Northern Virginia (09 Apr 1865) https://buff.ly/2y3cxNK Having consolidated in Georgia, Sherman turned north to invade the Carolinas and link up with Union forces in Virginia. Meanwhile the Union advances in the north forced the Confederates to flee Richmond. With his situation now untenable, Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House. Although it would take time for the news to spread, the Civil War was effectively at an end. #1860s #1865 #19thcentury #april #americancivilwar #americanhistory #april9 #axisallies #civilwar #confederacy #robertelee #historic #histories #historisch #historyclass #historygeek #historylover #historymaker #historynerd #maps #mexicanhistory #northamerica #ushistory #uscivilwar #victorian #victorianera #virginia #todayinhistory #historytoday #thisdayinhistory (at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wN6Lvgwy3/?igshid=ihlh6u1woext

[michaeldimotta]

A #Leo2go to try and express how #pissedoff and #heartbroken I am over the events that took place in #charlottesville this past weekend. Hate groups feeling emboldened enough to rally around a statue of #robertelee is unacceptable. Racism and violence should not be tolerated in this country by anyone, especially not our current administration. While we clean up this mess, we can't forget that progress is not linear and should not be taken for granted. Please stay vigilant moving forward, we need to protect every step we've made toward equality in our United States. #domesticterroism #michaeldimotta

[azspot]

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

The strangest part about the continued personality cult of Robert E. Lee is how few of the qualities his admirers profess to see in him he actually possessed.

Memorial Day has the tendency to conjure up old arguments about the Civil War. That’s understandable; it was created to mourn the dead of a war in which the Union was nearly destroyed, when half the country rose up in rebellion in defense of slavery. This year, the removal of Lee’s statue in New Orleans has inspired a new round of commentary about Lee, not to mention protests on his behalf by white supremacists.

The myth of Lee goes something like this: He was a brilliant strategist and devoted Christian man who abhorred slavery and labored tirelessly after the war to bring the country back together.

There is little truth in this. Lee was a devout Christian, and historians regard him as an accomplished tactician. But despite his ability to win individual battles, his decision to fight a conventional war against the more densely populated and industrialized North is considered by many historians to have been a fatal strategic error.

But even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are black. Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one. That ideology is known as the Lost Cause, and as historian David Blight writes, it provided a “foundation on which Southerners built the Jim Crow system.”

[nbcnightlynews]

White nationalist leads torch-bearing protest at a Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia. http://nbcnews.to/2qINURJ

[omniatlas]

North America 157 years ago today: Battle of Antietam (17 Sep 1862) https://buff.ly/32JW5w2 Having established naval supremacy, Union forces landed on the Virginia peninsula and advanced on Richmond, only to be smashed by Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days Battles. Lee followed up his victory with an invasion of Maryland, but was brought to a halt at the Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Antietam ended the threat to Washington and gave US President Abraham Lincoln confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, officially ending slavery in the Confederacy. #northamerica #history #map #1860s #19thcentury #1862 #americancivilwar #americanhistory #uscivilwar #ushistory #confederacy #confederatestates #civilwarbuff #mexico #robertelee #september #september17 #antietam #sharpsburg #britishempire #abrahamlincoln #maps #todayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #historyteacher #historybuff #historygeek #historynerd #worldhistory #cartography (at Antietam National Battlefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2gZxM-gsW7/?igshid=7pj3zakcka44