Lexington renames burial site of Stonewall Jackson
Graves in the Lexington, Va., cemetery formerly known as Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.(WDBJ7 Photo)
The Lexington, Virginia city council has
officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried.
News outlets report the Lexington City Council voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a law changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery to Oak Grove Cemetery.
The Civil War general owned slaves and fought to defend the practice. He was buried in the cemetery more than 150 years ago.
Officials faced calls from community members in June to change the name and remove all other monuments and places honoring Confederate figures in within city limits, as communities around the world faced similar demands.
The council voted in favor of the change in July.
Hat tip to jerry. Without his link in the Food Lion post, I wouldn’t have found this atrocity.
Source; WDBJ-7
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Historical, SJW Idiocy
Are they going to dig up Jackson’s body and desecrate his remains too? With the crazed SJW Wokesters now running ‘Ole Virginny, you never know…
And this action accomplishes what exactly? Hurray for those misguided souls who believe, with something akin to a religious fervor, that this does something other than stroke their own egos. It doesn’t.
How’s that old saying go?
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it – something like that.
How’s that old saying go?
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it – something like that.
We’ve been following this one and expecting it for awhile now. I get notifications on a daily basis of historical revisionists pushing this agenda. One of the greatest tacticians and Military Field Commanders that the world has ever seen. If that War had of been about the overthrow of the US Government, Jackson, with a fresh Brigade or “Give me a Regiment Mr. President Davis” would have happened on the evening of FIRST Manassas (Bull Run). And yes, Jackson’s Family owned a small handful of slaves (5?). Not condoning that at all, but those were ones that he bought to keep the family together and to keep them from being sold “down River.” He was also in violation of FEDERAL LAW, by teaching them to read and write. He also tithed his Military Pay for the Church that he provided for them. Well after his death the descendants of those same slaves raised the money to place a stained glass window in his memory in their Church. His is the only Confederate General to be so Honored. What’s next, quit teaching his and Bobby Lee’s tactics on the Sand Tables at the C&GSC out in Kansas? How about remove any evidence from that School for Wayward Children up on the Hudson River that he and Lee ever lived? Oh, and btw, nust change the color of the Cadet Gray uniforms at that same school. Good luck winning your next major war SJWs. The whole Desert Storm Ground War was based on Lee and Jackson’s work at Chancellorsville in May 1863. The Artilleryman was the FIRST to use electronic communication (telegraph) in an indirect fire role as a forward observer to bring fires down on the Mexican Army during the Mexican American War. The King of Battle was used to great effect to win that war. He used his Queen of Battle Infantry Foot Cavalry so well and with such skill on the defensive and the offensive that the mere mention of his name would cause his opponents line to break and run. Just ask Johnny “My Headquarters Will Be In… Read more »
At worst, Thomas Jackson was a good man serving a bad cause. At *worst*. He was a man of deep faith and deep convictions, who gave less than a fuck what anyone else thought of him. He was weird and eccentric, but also unquestionably honest, fearless in battle, and kind to a fault. In every endeavor he either went all-in, or not at all. He believed slavery was evil, but also believed in divine predestination, and therefore believed that it would end when God appointed it to end (much the same as he felt about his own mortality). In the meantime, he challenged the societal norm by insisting that blacks were also children of God. He is now unfairly judged by a perspective that was IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to have in 1862. Was he on the wrong side? Yes. So were many thousands of other good men. Guess what? There were plenty of bad men on the right side! And vice versa. He was mistaken in his belief that slavery in America was uneconomical and thus naturally declining, but that was a commonly-held misconception; it *had* been true until 1794, when Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. In his defense, abolitionism was gaining ground nationwide at the time (ironically, the war cost the movement some popularity), so it’s easy to see how some might see it that way. His concept of patriotism was that he was duty-bound to defend his home against all enemies. Thus he fought to defend the United States against Mexico (from his own perspective, at least), and fought to defend Virginia against the United States. He probably would’ve fought against Virginia to defend Rockbridge County, had it ever come to that. He was a flawed man, but a good man nonetheless. A better man than most, if you ask me. He was on the wrong side, but his reasons for being there were entirely honorable, even admirable. Thomas Jackson was worth more as a man than thousands of Bedford Forrests and Jefferson Davises. There’s an old piece of cowboy wisdom my Dad has often quoted to… Read more »
“At worst, Thomas Jackson was a good man serving a bad cause.”
The cause of the Confederacy was to rebel against the creeping power of the federal government. Slavery was a secondary issue, and please do remember,or learn, that slaves in the North, while not so numerous as in the agricultural South, were not emancipated until the passage of the 13th Amendment, December 1865. There were many slaves in the self righteous North until then.
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There exist myriad reasons to explain why the War for Southern Independence was NOT about slavery. One of the most obvious: Why would they have requested that a “slave-owner” (Robert E. Lee) take command of their army in 1861 if they wanted to eradicate slavery? (rhetorical question). That’s just the beginning.
VERY TRUE, Robert E. Lee was indeed offered Command of the Union Army but turned it down saying that he could not raise his sword against a Fellow Virginian!
It absolutely was and it absolutely wasn’t. It’s a very complicated and convoluted issue.
The Cause of the Confederacy was to fight for one’s state. No one even considered the USA as their “country” back in those days.
SO glad I put the New People’s Republic of Virginia in my rear view mirror back in March!