Guess Who???

So, this is my mom's second in the Civil War series.  Created from some rare historic photographs.  I dont have much influence in the debate of Lee VS Stonewall, but I do have to say she painted Stonewall first ;)

More Civil War

An article about Dr. James I. "Bud" Robertson, Jr., who is retiring this year after 43 years of work at VPI.

From the article (written by Jean Elliott of Virginia Tech):

"Robertson said, “A good professor is as young as his students. I’ve kept on teaching long after I should retire because I love the kids.” The 22,000 Hokies who have taken Robertson’s class probably all remember a statement similar to this, “If you don’t understand the emotions, you won’t understand the war. You have to come to know them,” Robertson said, “and then you get to understand history.”

Lee VS Stonewall

Is this one point for Robert E. Lee?

He now has his own personalized license plate, I was driving on I-81 yesterday and thought I saw our beloved general on the back of someone's car. Sure enough I was renewing my registration today and decided to look it up....and sorry, no stonewall as of yet!

Stalwart of the Faith

"My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future.
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

-Robert E. Lee, 1870 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_E_Lee)