Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From 1861 to 1865, the United States of America was a country divided. More than a century later, it remains America's bloodiest war. After the cessation of conflicts and the surrender of the Confederate army, General Robert E. Lee found himself constantly approached to endorse numerous different memorials, statues and other structures. There was just one problem -- he apparently hated them.
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| 0:00.0 | Can we get a little bit of a kind of a Gettysburg vibe music? |
| 0:29.0 | Like with the drums, flute. |
| 0:31.0 | There we go. |
| 0:33.0 | I feel that cadence. |
| 0:35.0 | It sounds like a 90s song, like like, like, jumper by a third eye blind or something. |
| 0:40.0 | From centuries earlier. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, yeah, totally. |
| 0:43.0 | It's those marching drums that really give my, give my fields up. |
| 0:47.0 | In speaking of fields, thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:50.0 | We hope that you are feeling great. |
| 0:53.0 | This is ridiculous history. |
| 0:54.0 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:55.0 | My name is Null. |
| 0:56.0 | And the man on the ones and twos, as always, give it up for our super producer, Casey Pegrum. |
| 1:03.0 | Today's episode does concern some heavy history that we have to bring into the story. |
| 1:11.0 | But we don't have to get too, too in the weeds about it. |
| 1:16.0 | You've heard the story a thousand, thousand times whether or not you live in the US. |
| 1:22.0 | It's a story of brother against brother North and South, a nation divided the US Civil War. |
| 1:30.0 | Null, how would you describe the US Civil War to someone who had never heard of it? |
| 1:34.0 | It was real main spirit, man. |
| 1:36.0 | Brothers were fighting brothers. |
| 1:37.0 | Everyone was at each other. |
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