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I ran across this tidbit, in an article about Robert E. Lee and thought I'd share it.
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One Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, a well-dressed, lone black man, whom no one in the community—white or black—had ever seen before, had attended the service, sitting unnoticed in the last pew.
Just before communion was to be distributed, he rose and proudly walked down the center aisle through the middle of the church where all could see him and approached the communion rail, where he knelt. The priest and the congregation were completely aghast and in total shock.
No one knew what to do…except General Lee. He went to the communion rail and knelt beside the black man and they received communion together—and then a steady flow of other church members followed the example he had set.
After the service was over, the black man was never to be seen in Richmond again. It was as if he had been sent down from a higher place purposefully for that particular occasion.
Today, and deservingly so, Lee is honored throughout the country. Only Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln exceed him in monuments and memorials.
Professor Edward C. Smith is the director of American Studies at American University, Washington, D.C., and co-director of The Civil War Institute. He is a regular columnist for National Geographic News and speaker in the National Geographic Society lecture program. He also leads interpretative tours of Civil War sites and other historic locations.
This is the truth. He has Abraham Lincoln to thank for that. Robert E. Lee technically committed treason, especially when you consider that he graduated from West Point and swore an oath to this nation. When he abandoned the U.S. Army for the enemy combatant, he became a traitor. He sided with the Confederates in particular. And the Confederate cause wasn't a good one. Lee got off easy, really easy. That is why that event could even happen in the first place.
Newsflash - not everyone who fought for the Confederacy was a 100% awful person. I'm certain some even thought slavery was bad. Just like not everyone who fought for the Union was a 100% good person. I'm certain some of them thought slavery was just peachy.
What's the point?
Anyone who doesn't already know this to be true is either so shallow-thinking, or so small minded, that some feel good story about Gen Lee praying with a black man won't sway them anyway - even if the story is true.
To honor the man. Commissioned 1960, decommissioned 1985 and scrapped 1995. The reactor core is buried at Hanford, WA.
Currently the Navy has a Aegis cruiser named USS Chancellorsville named for the battle where Lee kicked Union ass. The Navy has no plans to change her name.
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