History Imposed on a Defeated People

28 September AD 2021
Donald R. McClarey

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, says it all at the end:

Go here to read the main article by Dan McLaughlin. Go here to comment at Instapundit. Confederate General Patrick Cleburne, in his still-born proposal to free the slaves of the Confederacy and enlist the fighting age men in the Confederate Army, wrote about this type of history:

It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision.

Donald R. McClarey

Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.

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Tuesday, September 28, AD 2021 9:47pm

In addition to Gen Cleburne, CSA, Gen Robert E. Lee proposed by dispatch to the Conferderate Congress that slaves be allowed to fight for their homeland. He advocated that the slaves be trained in the same manner as the soldiers; receive the same pay,;be freed and treated with respect. The Congress refused and the rest is history.