Pat Buchanan: America’s Second Civil War
Patrick J. Buchanan August 17, 2017
“They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee–and what a leader! … No military
leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among
troops as did Lee when he reviewed them on his horse Traveller.”
So wrote Samuel Eliot Morison in his magisterial “The Oxford History of the American People” in 1965.
First in his class at West Point, hero of the Mexican War,
Lee was the man to whom President Lincoln turned to lead his army. But
when Virginia seceded, Lee would not lift up his sword against his own
people, and chose to defend his home state rather than wage war upon
her.
This veneration of Lee, wrote Richard Weaver, “appears in the saying attributed to a Confederate soldier, ‘The rest of us may have … descended from monkeys, but it took a God to make Marse Robert.'”
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This veneration of Lee, wrote Richard Weaver, “appears in the saying attributed to a Confederate soldier, ‘The rest of us may have … descended from monkeys, but it took a God to make Marse Robert.'”
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