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Title: 19 January Birthdate of General Robert Edward Lee a Legal Holiday in North Carolina
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League of the South/Rebellion
URL Source: http://www.lsrebellion.blogspot.com/
Published: Jan 19, 2013
Author: Old Rebel
Post Date: 2013-01-19 19:34:46 by X-15
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Views: 155
Comments: 4
North Carolina in 1892 made the birthdate of Robert E. Lee a legal holiday in the State. Like Washington before him, he led Americans, including North Carolinians, in battle in their second War of Independence in defense of their homes, inalienable rights and liberty. He considered his State of Virginia as his country, and the South as his home. General Dwight Eisenhower said of him in 1960: “General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause….he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his belief in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history. From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul.” Poster Comment: 
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