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posted by cmn32480 on Monday June 12 2017, @12:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the south-shall-rise-again dept.

In the June 1969 issue of Civil War History — Volume 5, Number 2, pages 116-132 — a renowned Southern historian attacked the legacy of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

"No single war figure stands in greater need of reevaluation than Lee," wrote Thomas L. Connelly, the late University of South Carolina professor. "One ponders whether the South may not have fared better had it possessed no Robert E. Lee."

Connelly's essay was among the first academic musket shots fired on Lee's standing as an outmatched but not outwitted military genius presiding over a Lost Cause — a reputation celebrated in fawning biographies and monuments like the one removed Friday in New Orleans.

Was General Lee overrated? Get your armchair historian on...


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @05:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @05:34AM (#524133)

    You don't even need to say "broadly".

    The Civil War was about which commanders could best use technology.
    They mostly did a shit job, choosing attrition.
    Lee, in particular.
    See my comment #524126 [soylentnews.org].

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday June 12 2017, @06:24AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Monday June 12 2017, @06:24AM (#524149) Journal

    What I meant by "technical" there wasn't necessarily technology, but I guess something more like "academic" or "nerdy" rather than articles just on random pop culture topics or recipes for souffle (unless the souffle article details the science behind them or something).