A Union Hero on the Confederate Flag
From "Why Do the Neocons Hate Dixie So?" in The American Cause:
Late in life, Joshua Chamberlain, the Union hero who won the Medal of Honor for holding Little Round Top when Lee sent the Texans to turn Meade's flank on the second day at Gettysburg, said that whenever he saw that flag, it recalled to him the indomitable courage of the men who had fought under it.
Joshua Chamberlain, a hater of slavery, it seems, did not see the flag as a symbol of that hated institution, as we so often do today.
From "Why Do the Neocons Hate Dixie So?" in The American Cause:
Late in life, Joshua Chamberlain, the Union hero who won the Medal of Honor for holding Little Round Top when Lee sent the Texans to turn Meade's flank on the second day at Gettysburg, said that whenever he saw that flag, it recalled to him the indomitable courage of the men who had fought under it.
Joshua Chamberlain, a hater of slavery, it seems, did not see the flag as a symbol of that hated institution, as we so often do today.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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