Over the past couple of years, a lot was written about efforts to remove Confederate statutes in New Orleans because of the perception by some that the statutes glorified a chapter of this country’s history that approved of slavery. Those opposed to the statutes said they glorified a culture of oppression.
Included among those statute was one of Gen. Robert E. Lee, a West Point graduate who, though recruited by the Union, eventually cast his lot with the Confederacy.
To illustrate how customs and traditions can change, LouisianaVoice, in recently conducting research for what is hoped will be an upcoming book on a completely different subject, stumbled across an interesting story in a Baton Rouge Morning Advocate from way back on Nov. 4, 1953—almost 65 years ago.
Just goes to show you never can tell what is going to strike a nerve with some people.
With today’s trend moving in a definitive direction away from honoring those associated with the losing side of the Civil War, could it be just a matter of time before the names of towns like Stonewall, Jackson, Leesville, Dixie Inn, Longstreet and the parishes of Jackson, Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis will undergo name changes?
Louisiana Voice 
I would be willing to bet that Gen. Robert E. Lee wouldn’t want his statue located in that cesspool called New Orleans.
Ha! Those names won’t need to be changed. With the current dumbing down of Louisiana schoolchildren, most people won’t even know what Stonewall, Jackson, Leesville, Dixie Inn, Longstreet, Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis even pertain to.
R E Lee was an honorable man throughout his entire life. These dumbasses who wanted them removed do not even realize that Jefferson Davis had an adopted black child, Lee freed his slaves. Lee fought for the south because he did not want to participate in killing of his own people. U S Grant kept his slaves until passage of 14th amendment forced him to free them.
And, had Lincoln not invaded the south, there would have been no war.How far New Orleans has fallen under Democrat leadership.
First of all, I don’t think the article was intended as a discussion of the merits of lack of in tearing down the statutes. I believe it was to show the contrast in thinking over a period of time. Some attitudes do change over time. Some, as evidence by your comments, do not and never will.
I can agree with you up to a point. Lee indeed was “honorable,” at least by today’s standards (Trump, Clinton, Ryan, McConnell, Sessions, Pruitt, et al). He was a West Point graduate and was recruited to lead the North but chose the South. But that’s as far as I can go with your tripe.
Grant owned exactly one slave (not slaves, plural), whom he freed in 1859—well before passage of the 14th Amendment, which wasn’t adopted until July 9, 1868.
And Lincoln invaded the South? Where did you come up with that absurd idea? I think your history books will reflect that the Civil War began when Ft. Sumpter was fired upon and South Carolina seceded from the Union. There was going to be a war. South Carolina tried to secede during Andrew Jackson’s presidency, but he managed to prevent that. But it was only a matter of time.
And just what has Jeff Davis’s adoption of a black child have to do with anything? Andrew Jackson adopted a Native American child but that doesn’t change the fact he brutalized and slaughtered Native Americans. Read up on the Trail of Tears sometime.
In fact, get your head out of Fox News and read American History sometime. You might learn something.
And please. Get your facts straight.
Here’s an article for fans of Gen. Lee:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
…and another, suggesting a name change might have raised money for underfunded schools without raising taxes, all you Grover Norquist acolyte lemmings (who buy overpriced tickets for events at the Raising Cane’s River Center Arena, the Mercedes Benz Superdome, and the Smoothie King Center):
https://bobmannblog.com/2016/05/01/what-in-a-name/
Zoe, I challenge you to read the two stories linked by tis0.
Sorry, I forgot it’s not on Fox so you’re not interested.