“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 »
Deadline deal averts link dump shutdown
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged alexander betts, charleston sc, college basketball recruiting, dean smith, east flat rock nc, flat rock nc, gettysburg, jack betts, oldest nc photo, raleigh nc, unc basketball, wilmington nc on April 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
— Reconsidering North Carolina’s oldest known landscape photo. — “It certainly would be nice to have another Ohio native become part of our basketball program here at Chapel Hill.” — Bellum Charleston’s elite retreat. (Are East Flat Rock, Savannah and the Masters “actually part of Charleston”? ) — Great-grandpa sends a Tweet from Gettysburg. — […]