![]() The Alexandria city council enacted a law in 1953 requiring that all new streets running north and south be named to honor Confederates and repealed it only in 2014, after 66 streets had that honor. Only much later did Seidule realize that the “southern way of life” was “white ladies and gentlemen sipping iced tea on the veranda under the shade of magnolia trees supported by enslaved workers” and that the Lost Cause myths were its justification. ![]() Lee, Walt Disney’s Uncle Remus Stories, and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. In school, he studied textbooks that glorified the Confederacy and its Lost Cause defending states’ rights and the “southern way of life.” When his family moved to Monroe, Georgia, in his mid-teens, he attended George Walton Academy, one of the approximately eighty “segregation academies” founded in Georgia to frustrate the goal of integration. He writes of “growing up believing a series of lies about the Civil War and its legacy.” Army at the rank of brigadier general, was born in Alexandria, Virginia, where he grew up reading and rereading the Random House Step-Up Book Meet Robert E. Ty Seidule, for two decades a member of the history department at West Point and now retired from the U.S. Lee and Me is history and confession wherein a credulous son of the South slowly comes to understand that Lee was not the Perfect Christian Gentleman of Lost Cause myth but instead a defender of slavery, a believer in white supremacy, and a traitor to the United States of America. ![]()
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