Ty Seidule
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Author “Robert E. Lee and Me" | "A Promise Delivered" | Professor @HamiltonCollege | Prof Emeritus @WestPoint_USMA | Retired soldier
Joined September 2016
Today is #publicationday for ROBERT E. LEE AND ME in trade paperback. Thanks Ron Chernow for the awesome blurb on the cover!.Great to be a writer with @StMartinsPress @MacmillanUSA
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Ulysses Grant’s birthday. The finest soldier to ever wear US Army blue. Captured three armies - Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Appomattox. Destroyed slavery, “the cause and pretext for the rebellion.” Saved the United States and democracy. Huzzah!.#Grant
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Q: How many Confederates are buried in West Point’s prestigious cemetery?.A: Zero. MG George W. Cullum (namesake of USMA’s Memorial Hall) said, “I will never forgive those who forgot the flag to follow false gods.”
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At my Forrestal lecture at the Naval Academy, I discussed a theme from ROBERT E. LEE AND ME. I grew up revering Lee. No more. As a soldier & scholar, I now know there were 8 US Army colonels from VA. 7 remained loyal. Only Lee chose treason. Why? To preserve slavery.
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Yesterday, the nation did the right thing. It changed an army post name that honored Robert E Lee (a traitor for slavery) to LTG Arthur Gregg and LTC Charity Adams, US Army officers. Fort Gregg-Adams is the first base ever named after an African American. Huzzah!
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Road names at West Point now reflect heroes like US Grant who fought for this great country. Gone are those who chose treason for slavery!.Huzzah! .#history #westpoint #heroes
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Today is Robert E. Lee’s birthday. He killed US Army soldiers until Grant destroyed Lee’s army. Lee chose treason to preserve slavery. Study him? Yes. Honor him? No. Yet, many Southern states still recognize his birthday with a paid holiday.
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Gone! .Who we honor represents our values as a community. We must commemorate our heroes. Not those who chose treason to preserve slavery.
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Shout out to the 7 Virginia US Army Colonels who upheld their oath in 1861. John Albert.Rene DeRussy.Edmund Alexander.Washington Sewall.Philip St.G Cooke.George Thomas.Denis Mahan. These men deserve commemoration in VA and West Point! .#therealheroes.
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The Latin phrase on the Arlington Confederate Monument? It means that the white South was right. Right about secession, slavery, segregation, and lynching. As I write in ROBERT E LEE AND ME, it’s the cruelest, most anti US monument anywhere.
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No. The Confederate Monument at Arlington was never “Reconciliation monument.” That’s a brand new term. It celebrates the end of biracial democracy and the “horror of reconstruction.” It celebrates the triumph of “Anglo-Saxon Civilization.” So racist. Shout out @KevinLevin
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Today is “Victory in Virginia” day. US Grant forced Lee and his rebellious army to surrender. 2m US soldiers (including nearly 200k African Americans) destroyed slavery, freed 4m from bondage, preserved democracy, and saved the USA. Here’s Grant’s proclamation. #Appomattox
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WEB DuBois, as usual, nails it. “Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”.That’s why the statues must go.
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The US Army will resume work removing the Confederate monument tomorrow. Huzzah!
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As the statues in Charlottesville retreat to some anonymous warehouse, let's give credit where credit is due. Frederick Douglass in 1870, “Monuments to the Lost Cause will prove monuments of folly.” 1/2
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My thoughts on the Richmond monument coming down. Lee’s reputation is back to what it was among army officers and Black Americans during the Civil War - he chose treason for slavery!
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Here’s PVT Sam Watkins on the namesake of Fort Bragg. “None of Bragg’s soldiers ever loved him. They had no faith in his ability as a general. He was looked upon as a merciless tyrant. He loved to crush the spirit of his men.” .His thoughts on slavery below. Honor him? No!
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Some folks call me “presentist” for calling Confederates “Traitors.” Here’s US Army soldiers’ reworking of Dixie from 1864. The US Constitution lists only one crime - treason. Prez A. Johnson granted all Confederates amnesty for the crime of treason on XMAS day 1868.
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My @WSJ letter responding to @JimWebbUSA’s plea to keep the Arlington Confederate monument. The Naming Commission recommended removal. @SecDef ordered it removed. It’s a cruel, proslavery monument that trumpets the victory of white supremacy in 1914.
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West Point cadets still take an 1861 oath. "This oath will not permit a cadet to set aside his allegiance to the general government whenever a band of traitors and rebels choose to set up a defiant authority." .It's an anti-Confederate oath! Huzzah!.
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8 yrs ago @prageru released a video I wrote about the cause of the Civil War. Answer: Slavery!."The citizens of the Southern states were willing to fight and die to preserve the morally repugnant institution of slavery." .1/5.
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The Confederate Monument at Arlington was never the “Reconciliation Monument.” .The monument’s creators described the “astonishing fidelity of the slaves” and “kindly relations between master and slave.” .It’s pro slavery! And pro traitor!.
192 Republicans just voted to restore a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery, which features a Black 'Mammy' holding a white soldier's baby, and a slave following his master into battle. The effort from Rep. Andrew Clyde R-GA lost 230-192.
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US Victory Day! .Rebellion Defeated! Slavery Abolished!. US Grant's Proclamation to the Soldiers.". you have maintained the supremacy of the Union and the Constitution . and of the Proclamation forever abolishing slavery, the cause and pretext of the Rebellion. ".#Appomattox
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Elizabeth Van Lew. Abolitionist/US Spy. (My wife's ancestor!).The finest epitaph, ever, in Richmond, no less. "She risked everything that is dear . all for the one absorbing desire of her heart,.that slavery might be abolished and the Union preserved." .Huzzah!
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The last mass lynching in the US occurred in my adopted hometown of Monroe GA in 1946. No one was ever held accountable. One victim was a Black vet. MLK, then 17, wrote his first published letter in response to the heinous crime, calling out the moral rot of racism. #mlk
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I recorded this 9 years ago. “The citizens of the Southern states were willing to fight and die to preserve a morally repugnant institution.” Slavery. Shout out to the US Army (with 179k Black soldiers) for destroying slavery, freeing 4m from bondage, and saving the USA! Huzzah!.
Was the Civil War About Slavery?.
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Celebrate Lee’s defeat at Appomattox by reading General Grant’s proclamation to the victorious US Army in 1865. “Victory has crowned your valor!” Huzzah!
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Hey! @NikkiHaley! I can help. Why did the white South secede? Why did they choose treason? To protect and expand the immoral horror of owning other humans - slavery. Here’s an explainer. #civilwar #slavery.
Stunning moment: At a town hall in Berlin, N.H., Nikki Haley was asked by a voter what was the cause of the Civil War. She said the war was about government interfering in people’s freedoms. The voter then called her out for not mentioning slavery.
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Thanks @jeffglor and @CBSThisMorning for your story on me and Robert E. Lee and me.
Army Brigadier General Ty Seidule served his country for more than 30 years. His new book, "Robert E. Lee and Me" is a searing attack not just on his upbringing, but on some ugly parts of America that endure. @jeffglor has more:
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The military no longer honors those who killed US Army soldiers and chose treason to support slavery. We honor those who fought for our country - none better than Ike. Great article by @davis_winkie .#miltwitter #FortEisenhower.
With Eisenhower renaming, Army’s 100+ years honoring Confederates ends via /r/army #army #miltwitter.
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@JamesCarville and I wrote an OpEd condemning @SenTuberville stupid and cruel “hold” on general and admiral promotions. He’s hurting our military, our nation, and our allies at a very dangerous moment. Lift the hold!
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For #blackhistorymonth, I honor Major Samuel Tucker. In 1939, he led the first sit-in protest in my hometown, @AlexandriaVA, fought Nazis in Italy, and as a lawyer led the fight against segregation in #Virginia. I grew up idolizing a traitor, but now, Samuel Tucker is my hero.
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Tuesday Troll! David sent me an email asking for a refund for my book "Robert E. Lee and Me." Heck no! But you can repurpose it. Tiny stepladder (only 250 pages). Uncomfortable pillow. One-way boomerang. Be creative, David!
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A favorite story about Braxton Bragg as told by US Grant, who called Bragg “Naturally disputatious.” Oh, and Bragg chose treason to preserve slavery. Honor him? No!
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via @NYTimes Finally. A first step from DoD. The Confederate Flag represents treason to preserve slavery. Now, stop honoring those who killed US Army soldiers to try to create a nation dedicated to human enslavement.
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80 years ago, PVT Felix Hall was lynched by multiple assailants on FT Benning. No search party looked for him. No one was ever indicted. To prevent a racist future, we must acknowledge our racist past. @eji_org @USArmy @FortBenning
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No idea something so clear would cause such backlash. Remember, slavery is an abomination - legal rape, separating husband from wife/mother from child, torture, murder, and labor theft for generation after generation. Truly evil. Cause of the Civil War? Still slavery. 5/5.
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All nine posts now commemorate true American heroes. No more honoring those who killed US Army soldiers and chose treason to preserve slavery. Huzzah! .Kudos @davis_winkie for a great article. @ArmyTimes #FortEisenhower.
NEW FEATURE: A Friday ceremony here at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia, wrapped a years-long effort to rename bases and repick the Army’s namesake heroes. I spoke with the Naming Commission’s @Ty_Seidule & others about what it means to the Army and to America.
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Thanks! Washington picked blue for the Continental army uniform. Scott wore blue in 1847. Grant, Pershing and Ike wore blue too. Let’s celebrate those who fought for the USA (in blue), not those who killed US Army soldiers to destroy our country.
COL @Ty_Seidule chills reading this passage. Feel like I’ve always been the outlier thinking Lee was a traitor and Grant was the real hero. Just started reading it but great so far.
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Finally Lee’s statue is like his reputation: .cut to pieces.
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ROBERT E LEE AND ME came out a year ago. The book represents years of research/soul-searching. I worried. How would people view it - and me? The response? Amazing. So many folks have reacted positively. To one and all (even the trolls) THANKS!
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Rejected 1st Minnesota Monument for Gettysburg, slaying the serpent of secession!.Pres Calvin Coolidge said the 8 companies of “First Minn are entitled to rank as the saviors of their country." .#gettysburg
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April 9.“Victory in Virginia” day or “Grant Wins”or “Lee Loses” or “Destruction of the Army of Northern Virginia” Day. Spare me the Lee surrenders like a gentlemen. The US Army destroyed Lee’s Army. The United States forever! Slavery is destroyed! .Huzzah! .#Appomattox.
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Today is National Medal of Honor Day. Created in 1862, it features the goddess Minerva striking Discord, the “foul spirit of secession and rebellion” with serpents in his hand. The MoH is anti-Confederate. To hell with traitors! The US forever!
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W.E.B Dubois in 1931, Confederate monuments should read, "Sacred to the memory of those who fought to perpetuate human slavery." .Understanding these monuments are morally repugnant doesn't start in 2015. 2/2
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RE Lee Birthday today. A "Holiday" recap:. Whipped people. Separated families . Only VA COL to choose treason. Fought for slavocracy. Killed US Army soldiers. Led an army: . w/enslaved logistics. captured free Black people/sold them. executed Black POWs.
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Hey @NikkiHaley! What caused the Civil War? The white South seceded to protect and expand the immoral horror of human bondage - Slavery! This is an easy one. Here’s an explainer. #civilwar #slavery.
Asked what caused the Civil War, Nikki Haley refuses to mention slavery: “What do you want me to say about slavery? Next question.”
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Received this wonderful review on “Robert E. Lee and Me” from Ron Chernow, author of “Hamilton” and “Grant.” Thanks, Ron!
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#MemorialDay. We recognize CPL Freddie Stowers who fought during WWI. Because of racism, his unit served with the French. After destroying 1 MG bunker, he attacked the next. Hit by MG fire, he continued the attack until he died. His sisters received his MoH in 1991. #Remember
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West Point grad Henry Coppee in 1864 “Treason is treason. Lee flung away his loyalty for no better reason than a mistaken interpretation of noblesse oblige.”.
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Thanks @ratemyskyperoom! This soldier appreciates “Bravo Zulu.” High praise! Or as a Civil War US Army soldier would say, “Huzzah!”.
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Tuesday's Troll is Jason. He hates my book "Robert E. Lee and Me" and wants to fight. Nope. As a troll, he has unlimited access to rocks - especially between his ears.
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It’s official when the PX starts selling t-shirts! Goodbye Gordon! .I like Ike. #FortEisenhower @USArmy @FortEisenhower
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Great job, @DeanUsma. A wrathful Congress, upset by USMA grads who chose treason, created the 1861 cadet oath. The 1862 officer oath is also anti-Confederate. The US Army, led by West Pointers, destroyed slavery, freed 4m from bondage and saved the USA!.
🫡Among the plaques, you’ll find the cadet & officer oaths, which, as the class gift committee explains, “evoke poignant memories of the selfless sacrifices that so many classmates and military colleagues have made in fulfilling their vows to support and defend the Constitution.”
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Proud of my home state. As for Lee, Our memory of him is catching up to his actions. Put a bumper sticker on the truck as it drives away. “Treason for Slavery!”.
BREAKING: Robert E. Lee statue, erected in 1890, removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
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Hey @pptsapper! I’ll take that drink when the army starts honoring real heroes, not traitors. Til then, let’s keep slaying dead Confederates!.
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So appreciate the support from @HamiltonCollege. And the Confederate monument at Arlington?.The cruelest in the country.
Prof. Ty Seidule — vice-chair of the Naming Commission — defends decision to dismantle Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. via @starsandstripes . @Ty_Seidule #NamingCommission
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Honored to be named “Historian of the Year” by the Historic Hotels of America.
Brigadier General Ty Seidule, U.S. Army (retired) Named the Recipient of the 2021 Historic Hotels of America Historian of the Year Award
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The “Checkmate Linconites” trailer has Confederate zombies burning “woke history books” including my book “Robert E. Lee and Me,” urged on by Nazis. Say what?.#checkmatelincolnites .
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I gave a talk @GettysburgNMP on ROBERT E LEE AND ME. #tuesdaytrolls came out in force on GNMP Facebook page. To be clear, after calling Lee a “traitor for slavery,” I sleep soundly. Telling the truth always has that effect.
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Hey it’s #tuesdaytroll time!.Glad the reviewer found another use for ROBERT E LEE AND ME. Proud to be in the company of other burned books!
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A reminder: Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia depended on enslaved labor for its logistics. He led an enslaving army to create a slave nation while killing US Army soldiers. 180k Black soldiers fought in army blue to end the scourge of slavery and save the nation!.
“The chief source of information to the enemy is through our Negroes.” --Gen. Robert E. Lee
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An enslaved labor “plantation” is Dachau not Disneyland. A gulag of rape and torture. Where children are separated from mothers. No marriage recognized. Everyone should leave a “plantation” uncomfortable but educated.
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An incredible book from @reevesjw. An amazing story of the finest soldier to ever wear US Army blue. Pick it up now!.
My book "Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant" just arrived in the mail today. Publication day is Dec. 5, 2023. Thank you to everyone @Pegasus_Books! I'm also very grateful for blurbs by @Ty_Seidule, @DrChrisKeller, and James McPherson.
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Proud to work with my colleagues on the Naming Commission to honor true American heroes.
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Yes! Grant’s US Army was an “army of liberation and empowerment. Lee’s army brought enslavement wherever it went. Remember in this war the home team, the US Army, were the good guys.
Grant's army was an army of liberation and empowerment, unlike Robert E. Lee's army. Vicksburg honors the service of those men who fought for freedom and union.
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What to rename the Army bases that honor Confederate soldiers We have so many US Army heroes to choose from. Here are 11 worthy soldiers. Please feel free to nominate your favorite. No traitors, please. We can do this America! #changethenames
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Made my year to see “Robert E. Lee and Me” on the @CapehartJ bookshelf during @NewsHour. Thanks!
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Excited to start my next book OUR RIGHT TO SERVE about Black Cadets who fought against Nixon’s attempt to put a Confederate Monument at West Point in 1971. They changed USMA and the army forever! Thanks Charlie Spicer, editor @StMartinsPress and my agent Eric Lupfer. #writing
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On National #MedalofHonor Day, we remember the 1862 medal and the one still used by the Navy and USMC. Minerva wards off “the foul spirit of secession and rebellion,” represented by a crouching figure holding snakes. Our highest award is anti-Confederate. Huzzah!
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I will be interviewed on @ABC with @nadjawest2020 on Sunday morning by @MarthaRaddatz on the @ManassasNPS battlefield. Look for the steroidal Lost Cause statue of Stonewall Jackson.
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Commemoration shows our values. The Buffalo Soldiers represent the best out country has to offer. Congrats to @WestPoint_USMA @westpointhist West Point Museum and especially MG (R) Fred Gordon. Wisdom through History!
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Camp Nathan Bedford Forrest in TN was one of the largest military bases in the country during WWII, training over 200,000 soldiers. Named in 1941 for the KKK founder, enslaver & war criminal. Luckily, it closed in 1946. @pptsapper @KevinLevin
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Today is R Day @WestPoint_USMA. Cadets swear a unique 1861 oath. "This oath will not permit a cadet to set aside his allegiance…whenever a band of traitors and rebels choose to set up a defiant authority." .Huzzah!.It's an anti-Confederate oath! #WestPoint #RDay #oath
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Here’s what Virginian GEN Winfield Scott said when offered a Confederate commission: “It is my duty to suppress insurrection - MY DUTY!” Lee was the outlier. @KevinLevin @CivilWarHumor @SassyProf.
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To love our country is to understand its entire story and that must include the centrality of slavery and segregation. Americans aren’t made out of cotton candy. We can handle the facts. Let’s teach real history. Kudos to @AHAhistorians via @YouTube.
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"As a soldier, I'm proud that the US Army, my army, defeated the Confederates. In its finest hour, soldiers wearing this blue uniform, 200k of them former slaves themselves, destroyed chattel slavery, freed 4m men, women, and children from human bondage, and saved the USA." 2/5.
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#Tuesdaytroll called me a “Marxist Scalawag” who “betrays his roots, history, and General Lee.” Real betrayal is renouncing your sacred oath and killing US Army soldiers to exploit enslaved men, women and children - forever.
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Today is #nationalmedalofhonor day. Created in 1862, it features the goddess Minerva striking Discord, the “foul spirit of secession and rebellion” with serpents in his hand. The #MoH is anti-Confederate, anti-traitor! The United States forever!
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West Point has no massive Confederate monument despoiling it’s million dollar view because African American activism stopped it. Activism worked then. It’s working now!
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“Rumor of War,” Kehinde Wiley’s masterpiece of a Black man in heroic pose on horseback dominates RE Lee Camp Conf Memorial Park. In Richmond, the Lost Cause is in retreat @ACWMuseum and @VirginiaMuseum. On #monumentave, no traitors for slavery! Huzzah!
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Another, "fan!" To quote the great philosopher @taylorswift13, "Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate." Check out Tuesday's Troll. Proud to be trolled with @DrIbram
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Honored to serve the nation again, especially with leaders like @KoriSchake, ADM Howard, and Gen Neller. Ready to work! Thanks for leading the way, @SecDef!
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The antebellum army paid officers an extra 30% of salary to “support” enslaved servants. That’s right. The US paid Lee to enslave while on admin leave from 1857-60. @pptsapper @KevinLevin @mikejason73.
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Tuesday’s Troll is unhappy with .“Robert E. Lee and Me.” Is it because I said Lee chose treason to preserve slavery? Or that Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas were such better generals?
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It’s Confederate History Month. Reminder: On Christmas Day 1868, Pres Andrew Johnson granted a “full pardon and amnesty for the offense of treason against the U.S.” to all former Confederates. FOR TREASON!
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Lee chose treason. 8 US army colonel’s from VA in 1861. 7 stayed with the US. Why did Lee fight to destroy US? His absolute belief in human enslavement. Largest enslaver in the army. Treated enslaved cruelly. Not who I choose to honor.
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In 1864, Henry Coppee (West Point Class of 1845) a Georgian and first president of @LehighU wrote about Robert E. Lee’s decision to renounce his oath and fight against his country. “Treason is treason!”
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Tuesday’s Troll. Thanks for explaining your “bashing” philosophy, Tom. Starting a book review with “I did not read this” is bold, Tom, very bold!
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Thanks, @HistoricHotels and Larry Horwitz for naming me "Historian of the Year" after publishing ROBERT E. LEE AND ME. Those hoteliers sure know how to throw a shindig!
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Good riddance to Confederates base names. Goodbye to war criminals, KKK leaders, slavery advocates, middling tacticians, and traitors. Huzzah!
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An American Hero!.Elizabeth Van Lew-abolitionist and US spy in Richmond. “She risked everything that is dear to man- friends, fortune, comfort, life itself- all for the one desire of her heart- that slavery might be abolished and the Union preserved.”#Womenshistorymonth
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Huzzah!.
Best sellers in the last 24H!!. #9: Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. Ty Seidule.publisher St. Martin's Press.USD 24.99.
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Six years ago, this video (now with 34+ million views) came out & so did the haters. @thenation said I was a propagandist for the army. @starsandstripes said I was too close to a political group. The army investigated me for political speech.1/4.
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Today is R Day @WestPoint_USMA. Cadets swear an oath to a magistrate as per a 1861 law to ferret out traitors. in 1861, the penalty for breaking it was execution. Only West Pointers take this oath. No one else. Huzzah to the Union! .Ike's 1911 oath.
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Hey folks, if anyone is in Indianapolis tomorrow, I’m giving a talk at the Indiana State Museum.
HAPPENING TOMORROW: Our Influencing Lincoln Speaker Series wraps up as Brig. Gen. @Ty_Seidule shares his unique perspective & what led him to write his book "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause." RSVP →
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Today's "Fan review" of Robert E. Lee and Me. Typo? .Did the reviewer mean "Boyz II Men."
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