It’s literally called the “Reconciliation Monument” and was erected 100 years ago as a sign that the country had moved on from the Civil War. Now they’re tearing it down as a sign that they actually don’t want us to move on.
Now that we’re putting Christopher Columbus statues back up, it’s time to resurrect the Robert E Lee monuments too. He was a great man, a leader of men, and a brilliant military tactician.
My new special on the real history of the Civil War just debuted on Daily Wire:
A wife who belittles her husband, withholds affection, and refuses to let him lead in his own home is not just making a mistake. She is breaking her vows. And the culture that tells her this is acceptable is setting marriages up to fail.
This is a good question. Why is PragerU so determined to push anti-South propaganda? What could they possibly have to gain from it?
Why is it so important to them that Confederate heritage must be erased, that they're willing to peddle lies to support their cause?
Confederate heroes are American heroes. Wheeler was buried with honors at Arlington.
“President McKinley had deliberately handed commands to former Confederate generals, so that North and South would fight under the same flag for the first time since the war that tore them apart.”
His father fought in the War of 1812 and his grandfather fought in the American Revolutionary War.
He rode with Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley campaign.
Yet a woke federal judge has now ordered a Shenandoah Valley school board to take down his name.
Turner Ashby Jr
ROBERT E. LEE WAS AN EVIL SLAVE OWNER!
How often do we hear this?
Lee was the executor of his father-in-law George Washington Parke Custis’s will after Custis’s death on October 10, 1857. The will included approximately 196 slaves at Arlington, White House, and Romancoke plantations, which Lee managed but never owned.
Lee did not personally profit. He used the labor of the Custis slaves to pay off the estate’s debts, as required by the will, which prioritized financial stabilization before manumission.
Lee could not sell the Custis slaves, as the will prohibited their sale. This prevented breaking up families through sales, though some slaves were relocated among the estate’s plantations.
The will stipulated that the slaves be emancipated within five years of Custis’s death (by 1862), provided the estate’s debts were settled. Lee complied, freeing the slaves on December 29, 1862.
There is no direct evidence that Lee treated the slaves harshly. An abolitionist newspaper published an anonymous letter claiming otherwise. The inconsistencies and known errors led historians to reject this evidence. Lee's private letters deny such an incident.
Governor, your “critics online” are conservatives who are simply tired of seeing even our own side demonize young white men. Your team made an obviously very intentional decision to not depict a more statistically representative welfare leech, which as you know would be a black single mom. Explain why you made that decision. If you don’t want to explain it, because it’s precisely the answer we already know, then at least don’t insult our intelligence by pretending that you don’t understand the point we’re making.
“I never use the word ‘nation’ in speaking of the United States. I always use the word ‘Union’ or ‘Confederacy.’ We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.” - John C. Calhoun to Oliver Dyer, January 1, 1849