tidings ~ !

[lookingland]

yesterday was the 200th birthday anniversary of Robert E. Lee.

go check out some stories from father jim at Dappled Things, who writes nobly every year about this tragic hero of old virginia ~ and much more eloquently than i could ever hope.

hap-B-day uncle robert.



My trust
is in the mercy and wisdom
of a kind Providence,
who ordereth all things
for our good.

x-posted to uscivilwar

Comments

[gwyn-hwyfar.livejournal.com]

Awww :)
If you ever have a chance to visit Stratford Hall, you can see his baby cradle and the room where he was born :D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

awwww, there's something ridiculously cute about that thought.

: D

[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

Quite a noble general. Almost went to the union but went with his state. Honorable gentleman.

You know, looking at the civil war and the tragic loss of men and generals, it makes me wonder how the States would have figured if there was never a secession of the South. If all of those men and generals were fighting on the same side. Of course, it probably would have meant the USA would be a lot larger today, perhaps including Mexico and Cuba. Slavery likely would have died out, but I am not sure how the civil rights movement would have evolved. Would the south have freed the slaves and given them voting rights? Could the fed have then enforced voting rights if states rights were still strong? Perhaps without the civil war we would have inevitably had a civil war later on. So maybe it was a necessary war in the evolution of the United States as a nation. Nearly every major nation on the globe had a civil war at one point or another. Curious to think about I guess.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

uncle robert seemed to have felt that war was an unfortunate inevitability even though he believed that the slaves would be freed and things could have been smoothed over without it.

america would have certainly evolved a lot slower without it perhaps, but she sacrificed a lot to speed things up.

i think part of the problem of human existance is that man is always in such a big dang hurry.

: o p