GDG- Lee's Circle

[Margaret D. Blough]

There's a wonderful book of essays by Thomas Connelly and Barbara Bellows, "God and General Longstreet: The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind" that has one of my all time favorite chapter titles, "How Virginia Won the Civil War", on precisely that mindset.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "B. Ramsey" <ohauntieb at yahoo.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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> 
> There are lots of places in the South which jar "Yankee" sensibilities and 
> remind us that the Civil War is not entirely passed. As a native Californian, I 
> moved to Virginia more than 20 years ago. I will never forget the day I went to 
> Richmond to be sworn into the Virginia Bar. In the Supreme Court room where the 
> ceremony took place, there was only one statue-- a life-sized statue of Robert 
> E. Lee. When the Chief Justice read the oath in which we promised to uphold the 
> Constitution, I had a quick look at "The Marble Man" and wondered just which 
> constitution the Justice was referring to. Shortly afterward I had a very 
> intelligent law clerk who grew up in prime "Stonewall" Jackson territory in the 
> Shenandoah Valley. One day I asked her what she had learned in school about the 
> Civil War. With a grin she said, "Let's just say we never got the distinct 
> impression we had lost." 
> Beverley Ramsey 
> 
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