Robert e lee college years Videos

A man's first loyalty is to do what is right, not to his State, not to his family and certainly not to keeping his slaves. Otherwise he really is of no use to anyone really as Lee turned out to be responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of men so he could hang on to his false notions of loyalty. I understand the context of the States importance to individuals of the time was much greater. Of course I watched the whole video. I really don't want to discuss it. Moral standards haven't changed, only people's ideas that they are above them. The gross inhumanity of the South and their defense of it calling it a State's Right was simply wrong and very telling of their derelict intellects and yours.

+MrJoeyBoombotz Did you watch the entire video? So, what YOU determine is "Right" is your only priority in your decision making process? There are "Moral beliefs", there are "Religious Beliefs" and there are "Political Views" in most intelligent people's thought process. Sometimes consideration of the overall implications of national issues can influence people's decisions, even though the national view conflicts with other loyalties we may hold. Robert E Lee did not believe in Secession, nor did Jefferson Davis. What both men were more concerned about was that the Abolitionists in the North we doing in the years leading up to the Civil War. They were AGGRESSIVELY demanding the Abolition of Slavery in the South, while ignoring that Slavery had been legal and that the Social Structure of the South would be devastated by an immediate Abolition of Slavery. Dr. Gallagher refers to this as "Sectionalism" which amounts to the Tyranny of Northern States aggressively dictating to Southern states. Keep in mind that many Slave runners were Northern businessmen that owned ships and sent crews to Africa to capture slaves and bring them back to North America and sell them to the highest bidder. So Northern people had their hands in Slavery when it was profitable. However, Abolitionists did not care about the financial ruin and destruction of the existing Social Structure of the South would be, all the while they were demanding Slavery be immediately Abolished. So what was "Right" (freeing the slaves) was not something Southern States could afford to do at the drop of a hat, the South would have to transition away from Slave Labor so they would not go bankrupt. That was unacceptable to the Abolitionists and immediate elimination of Slavery in the South was unacceptable to the Fire Eaters that opposed them to the point of Secession from the Union.

+richard aurre Lee is a much more complicated figure than is usually presented. Professor Gallagher explores that as much as possible. He finds the man, not the myth.

lol....did I say the jew word..We go to jail for that in Canada, France Germany Belgium, etc.Fight Jew Supremacy

+lrattie Someone needs to leave the room and let adults talk.

+phtevlin He hadn't committed any crimes when he resigned and went to Virginia. It wasn't illegal to resign your commission and go home.

should have just shot him in the head and kick him into a river

Because, unlike the Jewish Controlled Americans of today, Americans back then had character and class.And I really don't think Abe wanted American Black Gang Land Culture.....and it must die.

+Francine Rossman Yes? You have a reply to my comment? What was it? Or were you simply "retweeting" my username?  

+DarkSideStormtrooper

Why would they? Lee initially wanted to sit out the war and went to Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, and told him that, but Scott basically told him he did not want people who sat on the fence in his army. You either had your loyalty to the Union, or you did not and if that was the case then, as Scott advised, it would be better if Lee resigned his commission. Lee did not make his decision so easily, he struggled with it. As did many. He had a sister who remained loyal to the Union and never spoke to him again.

yes

+Eliezer Pennywhistler It was because of Lee the Civil War lasted as long as it did since he led the primary Confederate army, the Army of Northern Virginia.

+Eliezer Pennywhistler Maybe that Lee had a lot of blood on his hands. 

Without ice cream and cake the birthday party would be much shorter.What, if anything, is your frickin' point?

+mak52580 My apologies. Sorry for my statement. No I haven't. I am studying Shelby Foote's first volume almost finished and have just in the past 3 years studied this subject -which I have avoided my whole 59 year life. First time my mother took me to Gettysburg I was 4 1963, The Western Wars are never really discussed I find in popular culture, nor the Peninsula Campaigns of 1862 long before "Fredericksburg". I was a Federal employee Maritime Lawyer for 15 years - therein lies my prejudgment of working in D.C. my hometown.  

+SassyHershsey SassyHershey you've obviously never been on a tour with him. one of the smartest, well researched historians of the battle I've ever met. There's a reason his lecture is in a giant lecture hall and not just the small auditorium most of these are in. Also note the number of people at the beginning who raise their hands that know him or been on a tour with him... there is a reason for this and it's not his status as "just a federal employee."

+Jordan S I will reframe from answering your insipid comments regarding redistribution of wealth and how you have conflated the issue with respect to the NPS.  This is a place for learning and not trading acid tonged snipes at one another.  Indeed I regret making the comments earlier that  you are commenting on.

+Robby House The national park service's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget is around 2 and a half billion dollars. That wealth was taken by the federal government in the form of taxes and redistributed to the park service. Would you be more comfortable with the Gettysburg park funding themselves privately? Maybe they could offer the private sector advertising space on billboards they put up on the battlefields. Maybe an ad for Burger King on Little Round Top.The only reason these videos are here is because of the redistribution of wealth, so you like watching them, you might want to start applauding if you haven't yet.

+Leonardo's Truth Excellent.  I need some money, can  I get you to send me a check? 

Damn right.  Up the Knights of Labor.  Down the the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Skull and Bones scumbags.

+Francisco T I'm a younger millennial and I eat this stuff up in great detail. I was present for the sesquicentennial July 1st - 3rd on the field, "In the Moment," for my third trip to Gettysburg, but I couldn't make the lecture series due to schedule conflicts. I'm just ecstatically happy that the NPS posted this channel, so I can hear all the tours and lectures. So, be not afraid that there is at least one millennial that takes the "War Between the States" seriously and will do his utmost to preserve the legacy of those brave men who fought and died for ideas so much greater than themselves.

+Francisco T Only the GOP base relives the civil war.

+Casey K But he gives the Lincoln game away-total war-thanks for the information but we kinda knew that already.

I am sorry I missed the 2013 CWI (and this last one too..). Maybe next year!

talking about military matters with no maps, no nothing ? :-(

Yes, the the lectures are interesting. Thanks for posting.

Wow... this is important stuff to know. we need to get this fixed.