Tag: robert e. lee
Displays At Arlington House Where Robert E Lee Lived May Be Removed
Arlington House, in Virginia across from Washington D.C, is one of the most viewed Civil War sites in the country. Sitting on a prominent hill…
Painting of Rober E. Lee Will Be Rehung At West Point
In a victory for the adherents of the Lost Cause, a twenty foot high portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee be rehung at West…
Thomas Nast Cartoon on the Threat to Black Suffrage from Confederates and Northern Democrats
Thomas Nast was America’s most powerful political cartoonist throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction. A strong supporter of the Republican Party during the 1860s, he…
Chambersburg’s Memorial Fountain for Union Troops & “The Burning of Chambersburg”
The women’s groups of Franklin County, Pennsylvania met on Memorial Day in 1868 and agreed they wanted to honor their men for serving in the…
Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion by Cory Pfarr
Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg: Six Matters of Controversy and Confusion by Cory Pfarr published by McFarland (2023) Cory Pfarr published Longstreet at Gettysburg: A…
West Point Historian Brigadier General (Ret.) Ty Seidule On the Persistence of Confederate Icons in Modern America
Retired West Point historian and brigadier general Ty Seidule spoke with The Guardian recently about the persistence of Confederate iconography in modern America. Here are…
Wall Street Journal Names New Robert E. Lee Bio to Its Ten best Books List
The Wall Street Journal released its list of the ten best books of 2021. Two are related to the Civil War Era. I would note…
When Lee Threatened to Execute His Men for Telling Jokes About Desertion
In March of 1865, the situation of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was desperate. As the hungry army was in its last weeks of…
Eric Foner on the Making and Breaking of Robert E. Lee’s Legend
A month ago the New York Times had an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner on “The Making and the Breaking of the Legend…
September Was the Cruelest Month for the Lost Cause of Memory
The last month has been one of dislocation for those of us devoted to Civil War and Reconstruction. Nathan Bedford Forrest was literally relocated,…