“When President Eisenhower and Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ‘sacked’ for their blunders at Gettysburg, they committed themselves irrevocably to battle…. ” ‘President Eisenhower,’ sputtered the Shelby, N.C. Star, ‘must have lost his mind.’ “[But] the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee’s own view […]
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When Ike criticized Robert E. Lee, South rose again
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged civil war generals, durham nc herald, gettysburg, president eisenhower, raleigh news and observer, robert e. lee, shelby nc star, viscount montgomery on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »