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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, @01:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @01:34PM (#524376)

    Jr high history, supposed to get to modern day. Never hit the Civil War. High School history, supposed to get to modern day. Never hit the Civil war. College history, supposed to get to modern day, never got to the Civil War.

    3 shots, never got the Civil War, WW1, WW2, cold war, Vietnam. But I sure as shit know in 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue.

    / for me, history class was a huge waste of time
    // Drake crossed the southern tip of South America around 1580 or so
    /// Tell me again how knowing this is useful.

    We did get to the Civil War but no further, history class just started over again and again. I read ahead in High School to see how far the books went and not only did they tend to end nearly a decade before the year I was taking the class but I also realized that we never even got 2/3rds of the way through the book.