www.Circa1865.org The Great American Political Divide
An Englishman’s Tribute to Confederate Leaders
“When
Lloyd George, wartime premier of Great Britain, visited Richmond, he
paid tribute to the South and its two great soldiers, Jackson and Lee.
Accompanied
by Governor [Elbert Lee] Trinkle and others, he went over the
battleground of the Seven Days’ fighting around Richmond in 1862;
returning he visited the monuments to Jackson and Lee and laid wreaths
upon them, baring his head for several minutes in reverence.
He
agreed that the World War had developed no military commander like
either of these Southern leaders and ventured the opinion that the
history of America might have been different had Stonewall Jackson
lived.
(Rockbridge County News)”
(Rockbridge County News)”
(An Englishman’s Tribute to Confederate Leaders, Confederate Veteran, July 1924, excerpt pg. 284)
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