The banished-from-today's-polite-society John C. Calhoun made a compelling point that statue iconoclasts ignore.

Although every day is a new day, the new days are layered on top of repeating cycles of history as old as Mankind. The more we understand the cycles, the more complete will be our understanding of the present. Alan Sewell, Fire in the Heartland a Civil War novel.

President T. Roosevelt in 1905 about his 2 Confederate Uncles: "Men and women, don’t you think I have the ancestral right to claim a proud kinship with those who showed their devotion to duty as they saw the duty, whether they wore the gray or whether they wore the blue?”

Future Pres. T. Roosevelt in 1881: “Have enjoyed spending most of the day with the dear old [Confederate] sea captain, Uncle Jimmie Bulloch [and later] "without whose advice [TR] would probably never have written" his history of the 1812 War at sea.

Grok has apologized, folks. Someone, probably a Marxist academic or "public historian" put a fake report from General Forrest in Grok's knowledge database and after insisting it was in the Official Reports, Grok finally acknowledges that actually the report doesn't exist.

AN IGNORAMOUS - One critic of Trump's attempt to promote balanced history opined "I don't think Trump has any interest in history, the Confederacy, the Civil War more generally, or really any American history. I think he is just a downright ignorant individual." #USHistory

Dissident West

The widespread corruption that afflicted the nation in the years following Appomattox did not spring up overnight. It was rooted deeply in the rich soil of a wasting and disruptive [Civil] war. — Ludwell Johnson: The Red River Campaign. #USHistory

In 1874, after being in Europe for five years, Moses Ezekiel went to home Richmond. He visited his "real mammy, Aunt Keziah,...at the Exchange Hotel." She took him in her arms and said, "Lord, child, how you is grown! You must come right along with me and go down and see Uncle

The population of Chico County Arkansas is 54% black.

Today Washington & Lee President Will Dudley said he is leaving ten years after misfit Dylan Roof killed 9 black worshippers at a Charleston church. Since then Confederate iconography, and the Southern tradition, have been under assault. Dudley failed to defend W & L namesakes.

Yesterday was Robert E. Lee's 219th birthday. The following video makes the case for respecting his memory. youtu.be/D2C9kyzjkAs

Okay Grok and Support, this post has about a 15% engagement rate. Why is X deboosting it? Is everyone who thinks highly of Robert E. Lee a threat? How is this post dangerous or controversial?

They called it "Reconstruction"

Lincoln rushed to war in 1861 leaving 750,000 Americans dead after four years of fighting. There was no immediate threat. Trump has rushed to war without an urgent need to protect US interests. How many will die in Trump's war?

While the Confederate Governor of Louisiana, Thomas Moore, gave the Regiment of Native Guards the black line officers they requested, the Union Native Guard had such men replaced by white officers because black officers were "detrimental to the service." OR Series 3 Vol 3 p 46

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In April 2026 in Phnom Penh, construction company billboards feature Western/white faces to signal ‘high-quality, reliable, competent’ supervisors and foremen. They could use black and brown faces. They don't. Whites and the West earned a reputation for competence and ethics.