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🗓️ 10 October 2023
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0:00.0 | This guy here with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast. |
0:08.2 | After the Civil War, the South basically canonized Robert E. Lee, and after his death he was |
0:12.7 | practically a saint. |
0:13.7 | What's interesting is that in the North, even though he caused the deaths of thousands |
0:17.5 | of Union soldiers, he was almost equally celebrated there for nearly 100 years. |
0:22.2 | One obituary about him in the New York Harald Red, here in the North, forgetting that |
0:25.7 | the time was when the sword of Robert Lee was drawn against us, forgetting it for giving |
0:29.7 | all the years of bloodshed and agony, we have long since ceased to look upon him as the |
0:33.9 | Confederate leader, but have claimed him as one of ourselves. |
0:37.3 | If generations of Americans thought that the Civil War was the American Iliad, then |
0:41.7 | Robert E. Lee was practically hector, and everybody from Teddy Roosevelt to Patton to Eisenhower |
0:46.6 | Thoughtsow. |
0:47.6 | Why was Robert E. Lee considered the culmination of Shivalric Virtue in the United States |
0:52.4 | when, in recent years, his stars majorly fallen, where statues of him are being taken |
0:56.7 | down, and something that his biggest legacy is treason against the United States which |
1:01.2 | he swore an oath to serve. |
1:03.1 | To explore the legacy of Robert E. Lee is today's guest H. W. Crocker, who's the author |
1:07.2 | of the book Robert E. Lee on Leadership. |
1:09.1 | We look at the challenges of his disadvantaged upbringing, his education at West Point |
1:13.0 | and years as an army engineer, the role he played in the Mexican-American War, as a Civil |
1:17.5 | War commander, and how we can go about assessing his legacy. |
1:20.4 | Now, this is a very complicated question, and Crocker is very positive about him, there |
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