James I. "Bud" Robertson, Jr. lectured at the Museum of the Confederacy-Appomattox on April 11, 2015 as part of the Museum's 150th commemorations. He discussed what many Civil War figures did after the War.
He would have been as good as Shelby Foote in narrating documentaries. Must say he would be sad at the binge of iconoclasm that aims at destroying the reputation of many great Confederates, especially Lee. The northern eulogies of Lee in 1870 were heartfelt because if he had uttered a public word against Republican polices in the South, Grant would have been unable to suppressed the original KKK as he did, so many veterans would again have taken up arms.
I had the privilege of hearing Bud Robertson speak on 9/11/2001, at the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable. Great speaker ! Incredible knowledge ! I don't even recall the topic but, before he started his lecture, he spoke about the tragic events of that morning. I remember him saying "... we're Americans...we don't live this way."
This man is a reincarnation of Jubal Early. Both were/are determined to rewrite history so as to excuse confederate crimes against the United States. The Radical Republicans were right. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and all confederates who fought against the United States should have been hung or shot for treason.
Don’t think he gives Grant as President enough credit. There were reasons why when he died in 1885 he was still the most popular of 19th century Presidents, excepting Jackson.
I agree. For one thing he actually tried to be just to the Indians and to the former slaves, His weakness was his deference to monied men and his desire to make up to his beloved wife for his failure as a man of business, for which he had no head at all.
This wonderful professor has delivered a most powerful lecture!! I would love to read all of his publications and hear him speak, he has a distinguished southern accent and great knowledge. I never knew that the statues were erected and paid for by the union soldiers who fought for the people tearing them down.Wow!! People in general are very uneducated at this time in history. The boys / men who suffered and fought this terrible and great war should be honored and remembered always by all! 🌺🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵
I took classes taught by Dr. Robertson..... northern abolitionists lived off Slavery as much as southern planters. northern bankers made loans, northern insurance companies underwrote activities, northern textile mills bought slave cotton, northerners ate slave sugar and smoked slave Tabacco and before 1808, slave ships built and crewed by northerners transported slaves into the United States. Maybe the war happened because the guilty feeling of northern abolitionists and indignation of southern slavers at the hypocrisy of the abolitionists. And, what's crazy is that most people today are decedents of post-bellum immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery and just want to get on with life.
As if northern historians were not? Now their scholarship has been contaminated by marxism, which sees all history through the lens of dead German philosophers.
