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ROBERT E. LEE DAY

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I can remember when it was a state holiday here in Kentucky.

Thank you. Robert E. Lee is infinitely more honorable than that horrid man, Michael King

Dang gonehuntin, I never would've pegged you for a Lee fan.

that was before my time in Ky .did they give you the day off from school for Robert E Lee daylike they do MLK day ?Iam sure you didnt get off work for it but i could be wrong

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Arkansas State employees used to get the Robert E Lee day off, they still do but the name of the day has changed. miles

When i was in grade school in VA, we had a kid in our class whose ancestor was John Mosby. He and his family would come in and tell old family stories once or twice a year and we'd celebrate that, we were all jealous of him because it was cool as hell.


F*ck a bunch of cancelers.

It was Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia before the do gooders took over the state legislature in the 1990's or so. If I remember correctly we had the day off from school, that would have been in the 1960's.

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We didn't get holidays off from school in the 50's and 60's except for Christmas and Thanksgiving. My father worked for the state as a livestock inspector, and Lee's birthday was a paid holiday for state workers. Kentucky did not secede from the Union, but the majority of the state smypathized with the South, so that's why Lee was honored. Also, Jefferson Davis's birthday is June 3, and I believe that was a day off for state workers as well.

cool .Thank you

Lee did a lot with very little, compared to the Union force commanders. His left hand was Longstreet and his right was Jackson. When the three were together they were a force to be reckoned with.

Virgil, quick come see. There goes Robert E. Lee

Unlike military leaders today (Gen. Milley in particular), R.E.Lee was a leader with class and respectability.

Yep. Anyone being honest would agree with this^^.

Shouldn’t Robert E Lee day be Friday? (his birthday)

I've heard that Lee actually had the war won at some point, but because he was a "gentleman", victory slipped away.
As I understand it, Lee didn't give his officers "orders". His commands were more like "suggestions" and his officers pretty much went off on their own. A lack of direction and coordination led to Lee's downfall.

As I understand it, Lee being a Confederate wasn't necessarily his choice, but more a factor of his location when the war broke out.

Wasn't Lee also a West Point grad?

I could be wrong, but I don’t think Lee’s orders to Liongstreet, on day 3 at Gettysburg, was a suggestion. Perhaps that was the case in other circumstances, in other battles.

Won the Battle of Manassas (first battle) and could have gone into Washington and gathered up Lincoln but Beaugregard wouldn't authorize Lee to pursue the Yanks that ran with their tails betwixt their legs!!

Lee had the damyankys whipped day 2 if things would’ve set off that morning instead of dicking around 😉😉

Lee's horse Traveller had more integrity than 90% of the politicians in DC do today.

Lee's undoing was his aristocratic planter class loyalty. He could not abandon, a not so important, Virginia for a greater strategy to save the entire South. State's loyalty was a very big mental block throughout the South that precluded a wise, unified plan of attack and attrition. The planters were the richest men in the world. Their arrogant mentality failed miserably, diplomatically, by barring the sympathetic western states from commerce on the Mississippi. That steady food and supply, and political backing, would have made the Gettysburg gamble unnecessary. Similarly, Lee's lack of appreciation for deep south, non aristocratic, agriculture was fatal. Lee's biggest failure was fighting toe to toe with a great industrial power with plenty of reserves. He didn't have to win any big battles, just hit and run, harass and evade. Public opinion in the North favored secession as it was widely understood at the time the Union was a voluntary, mutually beneficial arrangement until it wasn't. The clock was Lee's greatest ally. But he was in a hurry.

I often wandered after Chancellorsville even though we lost TJ what would have happened staying on the defense??

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I would think so since his birthday is the 19th (1807)

You look great on that horse with perfect riding posture. I wish my wife’s relative Stonewall Jackson would have made it with you until the end.
Thank you for your awesome service.