Don't leave comments about the other reasons for the war; they won't get published. Rutherford County officials investigate Civil War monument arson at Stones River National Battlefield
In all the excitement of destroying Confederate monuments, I shouldn't bee surprised that someone firebombed a Union monument, after all they did the same to a monument to General William C. Lee from United States Army Airborne from World War II. Why? Because they don't know the difference between WWII and the Civil War, or Robert E. and William C. The American educational system at work.
According to the fire marshal’s office, someone used improvised incendiary devices, also known as Molotov cocktails, against the monument on the north side of Old Nashville Highway.
The Hagen Brigade was a Union brigade that died in the fighting at Round Forest between Nashville Pike and the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad during the Battle of Stones River on December 31st 1862. You can find more information at this link.
But the history of these men dying while fighting against the slave-holding South didn't matter to the Woke vandals, because that would require knowing history. And history is apparently not worth knowing, or it's racist, or something.
The Hazen Brigade Monument is the oldest American Civil War monument still standing in its original battlefield location, according to the National Park Service.
Hat tip to Wirecutter: The stupid fucks firebombed a UNION monument.....
As an amateur military historian it has always amazed me that so many people have bought the post Civil War revisionism by the South. Bloggers that I otherwise respect buy the claim that the war was not about slavery and cast secession as about original constitutional issues instead.
ReplyDeleteEven the most cursory study of document of the time exposes this lie. The first 7 states to leave the Union, plainly laid out that they were leaving because they feared the end of legal slavery. The VP of the Confederacy clearly identified slavery as the issue for the separation in the Cornerstone Speech
Every other issue cited for the secession had existed for over 50 years, but nothing happened until 1860 when a government whose stated intention was to halt the expansion of slavery and to gradually end it altogether.
One more pet peeve, Bobby Lee built his reputation on beating the same caliber of opponents as the Harlem Globetrotter did. Once he faced a quality general, he got beat. Braxton Bragg could have beaten the likes of Little Mac, Pope, Hooker, Burnside, et. al. After all he lost to Meade who had less that a week to prepare.