W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:54 pm It's like Colonel Sanders and The Burger King had an unholy union.
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W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:54 pm It's like Colonel Sanders and The Burger King had an unholy union.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/natha ... -2-decadessugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:27 am I'm just curious how they finally got it down. They've tried multiple times, including plans to build some sort of wall on the Interstate to block the view, but it's on private property and the owner has resisted all efforts.
We used it as a landmark to know where to turn when going to our friend's house in N'ville.
The rest of the property went to the Battle of Nashville Trust. The executor of the will decided to remove the statue, with the approval of the trust.
The group issued a statement explaining why, in part:
Forrest was not at the Battle of Nashville.
The property has no historical significance to the battle.
The statue was ugly.
Even Forrest would think it was was ugly.
And so, 23 years after the fiberglass and steel statue went up, Nathan Bedford Forrest and his horse came down. They are now gone from their very visible perch above the interstate just south of the city.
Great move.
It's about time! I've never understood why we would honor traitors who were trying to break up the country.
I don't understand, either.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:14 amIt's about time! I've never understood why we would honor traitors who were trying to break up the country.
There never was a more clear-cut, obvious case of treason than every person who donned a Confederate uniform and fought for the Confederacy.The US Constitution wrote:Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Yeah, I don't think that was the best call...the Civil War never ended down here...it just went from a hot war to a cold one...
They were all named around WWI when the US Army first started training mass numbers of troops. They needed to be in the South because the Army needed to be able to train year round. They were the places that Basic Training took place and where domestic garrisons were maintained. Also, in WWII, some of them served as POW camps. It was also the first time the Army had significant numbers of African American troops outside of the west.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:14 amIt's about time! I've never understood why we would honor traitors who were trying to break up the country.
Not exactly. While Lincoln had instructed Grant and Sherman to "let them down easy" he didn't issue any pardons or instruct anyone on clemency. He died before that came up. The fact is, Andrew Johnson was practically drooling to start hanging traitors after the war ended but US Grant wouldn't let him. Grant's terms to Lee, which were more or less the same as Sherman's to JE Johnston and to the rest of the Confederate Armies, were written in such a way that prosecuting any Confederates would be a problem.If I remember my high-school US History classes, it was only due to Abraham Lincoln's magnanimity, that massive treason trials were not held, at least for the Confederate military and civil leadership. A lot of people wanted to hang Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but Lincoln spoke eloquently of binding the nation's wounds, rather than exacting revenge.
When Johnson told Grant to start rounding up Generals, Grant flat out said no and being at the time the most famous man in the country, loved both North and South by a lot of people, Johnson backed down. It was the end of the honeymoon between the two and marked the point where it became inevitable that Grant would be President.US Grant wrote:General R.E. Lee,
Commanding C.S. Army:
GENERAL: In accordance with the substance of my letter to you on the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate –one copy to be given to an officer designed by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate; the officers to give their individual paroles to not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to their homes, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
Very respectfully,
U.S. Grant
Richmond is removing its last remaining Confederate statue
By Michelle Watson and Nicole Chavez, CNN
Published 2:33 PM EST, Mon December 12, 2022
The city of Richmond, Virginia, started removing its last standing Confederate monument on Monday.
City workers lifted the bronze statue depicting Gen. A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War, from its base at the intersection of the city’s Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue.
“Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States. Collectively, we have closed that chapter. We now continue the work of being a more inclusive and welcoming place where ALL belong,” Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney tweeted on Monday about the statue.
Hill’s statue, which was erected on top of the general’s burial site, is the latest addition to a growing list of Confederate symbols that have been taken down across the country since George Floyd’s death in 2020 sparked a nationwide reckoning with police brutality and racism.
In 2020, a state law passed giving local governments in the Old Dominion the right to keep or remove Confederate monuments.
Richmond, which was once the capital of the Confederacy, has since removed several monuments including a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Protesters had toppled a monument of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
The removal of Hill’s monument had been challenged in court but a ruling by Circuit Court Judge David Eugene Cheek Sr. in October cleared the way for the city to proceed.
Indirect descendants of Hill, who disagreed with the city’s plan to move the statue to the Black History Museum, argued that the site was a cemetery and that they had the right to move the monument and the remains.
The judge ordered the city to relocate the statue to a museum and Hill’s remains to a local cemetery, according to a court order and opinion letter reviewed by CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/12/us/r ... index.html
Lee was a strict disciplinarian and some enslaved people defied Lee’s orders or attempted to seek the freedom they felt had been promised by the late Custis. In that regard, Lee wrote to his son that Custis had “left me an unpleasant legacy.”[11] Wesley Norris, who was enslaved by Custis, recalled how Lee ordered the whipping of himself and two others who tried to free themselves from Arlington House by running north.[12] Lee often rented enslaved people to other plantations or owners to avoid managing them.
Fort Hood, the sprawling Army base in Central Texas, will be officially renamed Fort Cavazos on May 9, base officials announced Friday.
From that day on, Fort Hood will carry the name of Gen. Richard Cavazos, a highly decorated war veteran who was the first Latino four-star general and first Latino brigadier general. It currently bears the name of a Confederate general, John Bell Hood.
The name change was recommended by the Department of Defense's Naming Commission, which was created in 2021 after Congress ordered in a defense spending bill the removal of all imagery and titles honoring the Confederacy.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin ordered the commission’s recommended name change last October.
"We are proud to be renaming Fort Hood as Fort Cavazos in recognition of an outstanding American hero, a veteran of the Korea and Vietnam wars and the first Hispanic to reach the rank of four-star general in our Army," Lt. Gen. Sean Bernabe, commanding general of the III Armored Corps and Fort Hood in a statement.
"General Cavazos' combat proven leadership, his moral character and his loyalty to his soldiers and their families, made him the fearless, yet respected and influential leader that he was during the time he served and beyond," Bernabe stated.
Fort Hood is the headquarters of III Armored Corps and the renaming ceremony — open only to invited guests and media — will be held there, base officials said in a news release. The event is not open to the public because of space constraints, but the event will be livestreamed on the base's social media sites, according to the base's statement.
Cavazos, who died in 2017 at 78, was a Mexican American born in Kingsville, Texas. He commanded III Corps, headquartered at Fort Hood, among other assignments.
Pootriots can't complain about Fort Liberty. (They can but who cares.)