This sounds like he listened to a battlefield guide one time talk about Lee's plan to assault higher ground and then just ran with it. I don't think this is a particularly unique problem with this man, but something that visitors do all the time: hear something and then turn around and interpret it through their own imaginations. (Althou…
This sounds like he listened to a battlefield guide one time talk about Lee's plan to assault higher ground and then just ran with it. I don't think this is a particularly unique problem with this man, but something that visitors do all the time: hear something and then turn around and interpret it through their own imaginations. (Although you gotta admit, this guy's versions are WILD). I remember when Sarah Palin similarly mangled information about Paul Revere's ride right after getting a tour of Old North Church.
On another note: Some folks I used to hang around with commonly lamented that "no one wants to learn about the Civil War anymore because it's not politically correct," and yet never in my lifetime have I expected to wake up and find R.E.Lee on the front page of the paper. Hell, even Longstreet got a name drop on Jon Stewart last night. My old acquaintances ... their analysis of the landscape... ummmmmm
This sounds like he listened to a battlefield guide one time talk about Lee's plan to assault higher ground and then just ran with it. I don't think this is a particularly unique problem with this man, but something that visitors do all the time: hear something and then turn around and interpret it through their own imaginations. (Although you gotta admit, this guy's versions are WILD). I remember when Sarah Palin similarly mangled information about Paul Revere's ride right after getting a tour of Old North Church.
On another note: Some folks I used to hang around with commonly lamented that "no one wants to learn about the Civil War anymore because it's not politically correct," and yet never in my lifetime have I expected to wake up and find R.E.Lee on the front page of the paper. Hell, even Longstreet got a name drop on Jon Stewart last night. My old acquaintances ... their analysis of the landscape... ummmmmm