A (non) debate over honoring Confederate generals

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A (non) debate over honoring Confederate generals

posted at 9:31 am on December 22, 2013 by Jazz Shaw

There was an article by Rowan Scarborough this week in the Washington Times which claimed that the US Army War College in Pennsylvania was considering removing portraits and statues of Confederate Army leaders such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The purported reason for the possible “purge” was depicted as being some sort of statement against the CSA.

 

Nestled in rural Pennsylvania on the 500-acre Carlisle Barracks, the war college is conducting an inventory of all its paintings and photographs with an eye for rehanging them in historical themes to tell a particular Army story.During the inventory, an unidentified official — not the commandant, Maj. Gen. Anthony A. Cucolo III — asked the administration why the college honors two generals who fought against the United States, college spokeswoman Carol Kerr said.

 

“I do know at least one person has questioned why we would honor individuals who were enemies of the United States Army,” Ms. Kerr said.

 

“There will be a dialogue when we develop the idea of what do we want the hallway to represent.”

 

She said one faculty member took down the portraits of Lee and Jackson and put them on the floor as part of the inventory process. That gave rise to rumors that the paintings had been removed.

 

This spurred a rather heated discussion, as you might imagine, but Dr. James Joyner seemed to smell a rat immediately. http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/22/a-non-debate-over-honoring-confederate-generals/