Summary of Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 My birthdate had meaning because it was linked to the most important battle in American history, Gettysburg. But Lee was more than just a great general at Gettysburg; he was the greatest human who ever lived.
#2 The Battle of Gettysburg was a major battle between the North and the South. It took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1 and 2, 1863. The Confederate attack featured brutal hand-to-hand combat, but it ended with U. S. forces still occupying the high ground.
#3 After Gettysburg, the Confederates never recovered their offensive ability, and Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia stayed on the defensive for the rest of the war. July 3 marked a turning point, along with the capture of Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Ulysses S. Grant the next day, July 4, 1863.
#4 I grew up learning about the great Confederate commanders Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, who were both educators like my father. I admired Lee for his character, and thought he showed his true character on my birthday in 1863 when he refused to surrender after the Battle of Gettysburg.

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• United States

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355380
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

My birthdate had meaning because it was linked to the most important battle in American history, Gettysburg. But Lee was more than just a great general at Gettysburg; he was the greatest human who ever lived.

#2

The Battle of Gettysburg was a major battle between the North and the South. It took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1 and 2, 1863. The Confederate attack featured brutal hand-to-hand combat, but it ended with U. S. forces still occupying the high ground.

#3

After Gettysburg, the Confederates never recovered their offensive ability, and Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia stayed on the defensive for the rest of the war. July 3 marked a turning point, along with the capture of Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Ulysses S. Grant the next day, July 4, 1863.

#4

I grew up learning about the great Confederate commanders Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, who were both educators like my father. I admired Lee for his character, and thought he showed his true character on my birthday in 1863 when he refused to surrender after the Battle of Gettysburg.

#5

The first flag of the Confederacy was the Stars and Bars, which was similar to the American flag. It was criticized for not being distinguishable enough from the American flag. The Stainless Banner was designed to be all-white, and it was seen as a symbol of surrender.

#6

The Confederate Battle Flag was featured on the cover of my first and favorite chapter book, Meet Robert E. Lee, by George Swift Trow. It was published in 1969, and the publisher explained that the book was carefully chosen to appeal to young readers who wanted to find out about the world for themselves.

#7

The book argued that Lee was the greatest general of the Civil War, the greatest American, and the greatest man who ever lived. It also argued that slavery was wrong, and that the bygone era of the antebellum South was the greatest time in American history.

#8

The names we give the war itself and those who fought it matter. Our shared understanding of the war comes from the language we use. By calling the side wearing the dark blue uniform, almost blue-black, the Union army, we lose the fundamental difference between the two sides.

#9

The American Civil War was called the War Between the States by the Confederate politicians and generals. The most accurate description of the war is the American Civil War.

#10

The book my father read to me every night, Disney’s Uncle Remus, was a companion to the movie Song of the South. The movie told the story of Johnny, whose parents brought him to his grandmother’s plantation. The father left to go back to Atlanta for work, and Johnny decided to run away. Uncle Remus found him and brought him back home.

#11

The book and movie Song of the South is a prime example of how white people have adapted their history to fit their needs. The book and movie have been released many times, and each time, they are more popular than the last.

#12

Margaret Mitchell’s book, Gone With the Wind, has had a profound and lasting effect on Americans’ view of the Civil War. The book is the most accurate representation of the war, and it has been adapted into a movie many times.

#13

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy myth was created after the war to explain the failure of the Confederacy, and to maintain racial control and white supremacy. It was a series of lies, half-truths, and exaggerations.

#14

The Lost Cause myth is the second lie of the Civil War. It argues that white southerners fought the Civil War to protect their land and way of life, but in reality, they seceded to protect and expand their peculiar institution of slavery.

#15

The Lost Cause myth changed not just our memory but our morality, arguing that African Americans were better off in slavery than they were free. Lincoln had it right when he said, If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

#16

The Lost Cause myth states that the South was always doomed to lose, because the Yankees had more money, matériel, and manpower. The victory showed the triumph of might over right.

#17

The Lost Cause myth is the idea that the Confederate soldiers fought with honor, and that the American soldiers were rapacious and bloodthirsty.