View Through Central Hall Looking Toward Rear Outbuildings, McLean House, Appomattox Courthouse, 201
View Through Central Hall Looking Toward Rear Outbuildings, McLean House, Appomattox Courthouse, 2016.It was in this house that the terrorist and traitor Robert E. Lee surrendered at the end of the War of Southern Aggression (aka Civil War). For the future of the United States it is unfortunate that Lee was not given the usual punishment for terrorists and traitors in the 19th century (and his followers treated likewise). Lee was a capable military leader, able to organize some of the most hideous acts of terrorism ever undertaken on US soil. If he had refused to lead the army of the southern aggressors, it is likely that many fewer people, civilian and military, would have died. Today all too many idolize the man and have forgotten that the South lost that war, one it started in what proved a futile effort to maintain the “peculiar institution” of slavery. As we saw a few days ago in Charlottesville (about an hour and a half drive to the north of this site), many deplorables still revere the hideous situation of the ante-bellum South where rich white men dictated all and non whites knew their place (as slaves). -- source link
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