After a meeting that lasted for hours, the Shenandoah County school board voted early Friday morning to restore the names of three Confederate officers to schools in the district.
With the vote, the district appears to be the first in the country to return Confederate names to schools that had removed them after the summer of 2020, according to researchers at the Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative.
-Chuck
Good for THEM!
ReplyDeleteI’m convinced Mr Jackson did far more for his country than the felon Floyd did.
ReplyDeleteWell duh!
DeleteHurrah for the Shenandoah Valley. History says Turner Ashby was shot dead on a battle field. However, there is a sign in Harrisonburg on Main and Port Republic Rd. saying this is where Ashby was shot. His horse kept going on Port Republic Rd and about a mile outside of town he fell from the saddle dead. There is a monument where he fell. I've been to it many times. I also lived right on the Cross Keys Battlefield for about ten years.
ReplyDeleteSo they should
ReplyDeleteHad the Confederacy won the war, we might still have more of a Republic than the oligarchy we currently seem to be operating under at this point. Robert E. was certainly the best man in uniform and would probably have been a much better President than Ulysses S. But the moral stain of slavery needed to be washed away. And the Southern agricultural economy many say would not have survived without cheap (e.g., slave) labor - besides it was never a match for the industrialized North in a toe to toe death match.
ReplyDeleteI think with the coming of things like the cotton gin and other industrial inventions that agriculture would have gotten less dependent on manual labor. That eventually would have been a death knell to slavery.
DeleteBut of course the north took advantage of winning the war, better called the invasion of the south, and punished the south while coincidentally enriching the upper class in the north.
I think if we do have another civil war, it will end with nobody Winn, except for maybe the CCP and the Russian Union.
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ReplyDeleteCan we change Fort Benning and Fort Bragg back, too?
ReplyDeleteAt the very least, erect monuments to them noting that the posts were originally named for them, that it was done by a democrat congress and detailing their military history.
DeleteThey deserve to be remembered. The civil war was painted as north vs south when in actuality it was democrats vs republicans.
It would be my dream. Ft Rucker? Ft Polk, Ft Hood, Ft Lee, Ft Pickett, Ft A.P. Hill? All the places I've been renamed. It would be epic if it happened. Just realized Ft Gordon ain't Ft Gordon no more. Soon they'll be after the NG post names. This is straight up commie BS.
DeleteAshby died just before the battle of cross keys and port republic, Jackson's apex of his valley campaign. Drove the union forces down the turnpike and northward and they stayed out of the breadbasket of the Confederacy for another 2 years.
ReplyDeleteJackson then went over the mountains eastward and rode the Confederate railroad to thseven days campaign where fatigue finally caught up with him.
Jackson only returned back to Lexington after he died from infection on May 9 1863. May 15 1863 he was interred in Lexington VA. May 15 1864 was the battle of new market.
Sadly, the vmi has turned away from its history. Gov blackface northam, a vmi graduate, was the blunt force used buy the demoncrats, to destroyed it.
Support the Condederacy! What, you thought it went away?
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