Robert E. Lee and the Question of Loyalty

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• JE

  @jeffreyriley8742 · 10 years ago

  I could listen to Gary talk all day.

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• HE

  @hectorgomez9825 · 4 years ago

  Gary is the GOAT

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• JE

  @jeffreyriley8742 · 10 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzeTPIlW7vE&amp;t=285">4:45</a> &nbsp;Professor Gallagher starts here.

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• PA

  @paulmcclung9383 · 5 years ago

  Lecture starts at about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzeTPIlW7vE&amp;t=290">4:50</a>.

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• AR

  @arkie_bear · 2 years ago

  A very good presentation by a man who is clearly well educated in his field. In my opinion, Dr. Gallagher overcomplicates Lee&apos;s motivations with his &quot;layers of loyalty&quot; approach. Lee himself said quite simply that his ultimate decision was determined by his unwillingness to raise a sword against his own people. Being Virginia aristocracy, Lee had an absolutely massive spiderweb of relatives and friends throughout Virginia. Who among us would be willing to wage war against our family, friends, and neighbors?

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• BJ

  @bjohnson515 · 3 years ago

  Lets not forget that Virginia predated the &quot;federal experiment&quot; by nearly 100 years.

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• PR

  @prechabahnglai103 · 6 years ago

  If I am not mistaken, the part Gary cited Lee&apos;s thought on slavery and the emancipation proclamation came after his failed attempt on the invasion on Maryland (having lost more than ten thousand men). This could have effected his attitude on the matter for the emancipation proclamation was seen as weapon used by Lincoln.

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• TO

  @top_gallant · 10 years ago

  1/3 of &nbsp;Officers from Virginia stayed in the U.S. Army. <b>mental note</b>

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• DO

  @dopefish250 · 9 years ago

  is the microphone he is holding even on? he gets quieter every time he moves away from the podium.

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• JO

  @johanronnung1665 · 10 years ago

  Very good this professor. A no-nonsence guy.

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• BJ

  @bjohnston3659 · 1 year ago

  In these trying times one depends on the freedom to discuss complex topics in an open forum content to know you won&apos;t be shouted down

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  @markburkley42 · 8 years ago

  &quot;Duty is the most sublime word in the English language.&quot; Robert E. Lee &nbsp;As Mr. Dawson stated, he was a soldier loyal to his state. Where his state went so did he. &nbsp;If a state or territory could join the United States, the does it not follow they have a right to leave the USA? &nbsp;This speaker&apos;s constant referral to the &quot;slave owning South&quot; ignores Lincoln&apos;s goal was to preserve the Union. He did not want this war to be one over slavery. Thus the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the South, where it could not enforced, but left over a million slaves in the North still enslaved.

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