I Feeel Good! (About Raiding Harpers Ferry)
by Fred Ray on November 11, 2017 · 1 comment
Lots of bad news all over these days, but I did get a laugh out of this one.
The Associated Press had to issue a correction last month after a story suggested that legendary 20th Century musician James Brown, and not fiery abolitionist John Brown, led a raid on Harpers Ferry just before the Civil War.
I’m not sure that America was ready for James Brown in 1859, or even 1959, but he’d still have been better received than John Brown.
The level of historical learning in this country does seem to be abysmal and getting worse.
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Fred has had a lifelong interest in the Civil War. His main focus lies in the arms and armament of the Civil War...and beyond. Fred is also very interested in Civil War sharpshooters, and is the author of Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia.
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people today are woefully ignorant about history, which has been very evident in the Confederate monuments debacle, or anyone else even remotely connected to that peculiar institution of slavery. History cannot be sanitized or whitewashed to suit everybody’s whims; it happened and it’s part of us, GOOD AND BAD. Let’s learn from the mistakes instead and carry on in TODAY’S world. Our history shows how this country was born, how it progressed, how it was almost lost and then sustained—-we need all these pieces of the puzzle that now make up this country today, in all its glory. I am thoroughly disgusted with the total lack of knowledge people have regarding THEIR country, their history.