GDG- Lee wounding?

[Jeff Burk]

Greetings
   
  Look at it like this, you are on the march day in and day out.  No proper diet.  Now with that being said, the trick is finding somebody that was not sick.
   
  jeff Burk

Dave and Deb Ward <dlwdaw at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


I agree that he was put on a pedestal like Jackson. What you said about him 
being sick was maybe something to make him save face could also be true, I 
don't know. It is possible. I will have to do some reading on it.

I think that if Grant had his position at the beginning of the war that he 
had at the end, the war would have been over sooner.

Dave Ward




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cygnus" 
To: "GDG" 
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: GDG- Lee wounding?


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> I always took the stories of his sickness as someone trying to make 
> excuses
> for him, to make him look like he almost won the battle even though... 
> He
> was probably a great general but the pedestal he is on is almost 
> ridiculous
> , nearing the level of the Stonewall Jackson idolism. I've never seen a
> horse with so many muscles as Jackson's statue at Manassas . Jackson 
> looks
> like popeye. How do you think the war would have gone if Grant was 
> placed
> in charge at the beginning instead of McClellan ?
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave and Deb Ward" 
> To: "GDG" 
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: GDG- Lee wounding?
>
>
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >
> > I have always heard he was sick during the battle. Wounded, I have never
> > hear that story. If he was, I think that more would have been said over
> > the years.
> >
> > Dave Ward
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: 
> > To: "GDG" 
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: GDG- Lee wounding?
> >
> >
> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >>
> >>
> >> Some people claim he was really sick during the battle. Lot'sf stories 
> >> on
> >> Lee.
> >>
> >> I do know his daughter was arrested and fined $5.00 in 1902 for 
> >> violating
> >> Jim Crow laws. She sat with so0me black people on a train.
> >>
> >> TLTL.
> >>
> >> Rergards,
> >>
> >> Jack
> >> ---- Kerry Webb wrote:
> >> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Joe Blair wrote:
> >> > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Hello from a professional lurker,
> >> > > I was reading an article in North South Magazine yesterday that 
> >> > > was
> >> > > dealing with the old hooves off the ground in equestrian statues
> >> > > issue. It basically said that the only rule is: there is no rule. 
> >> > > But
> >> > > it noted that R.E. Lee had been wounded in battle. I am unaware 
> >> > > that
> >> > > he had. What's the story? Was he wounded in the Mexican War 
> >> > > perhaps?
> >> > > Scratching my head. TY
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > According to
> >> > http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/leebio.htm
> >> > he was slightly wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec.
> >> >
> >> > Kerry
> >>
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