Confederate general name will be changed to Barack Obama Elementary

[Gunny]

Mine as well my friend.
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, Jubal Early, Cadmus Wilcox, and others rate highest on my list.
AT LEAST A DOZEN OTHERS THAT RATE HIGH MERIT..--Tyr

Had Lee listened to Longstreet and Gettysburg the North would have lost.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Had Lee listened to Longstreet and Gettysburg the North would have lost.

[QUOTE]

To Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early of the Confederate States Army, at least for a little while that day, it must have seemed that the war was young again. In the noonday heat of July 11, 1864, the commander of the battle-hardened II Corps of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia sat his horse on a rise of ground in Maryland and saw, shimmering in the heat waves just six miles to the south, the luminous dome of the United States Capitol. Immediately in front of him were the frowning works of Washington’s formidable ring of defensive entrenchments. A glance told him, he wrote later, that they were “but feebly manned.”

And now here he was, on the brink of history, about to quench the boundless thirst for recognition that glittered ceaselessly from his black eyes. Pursuant to Lee’s instruction, he had chased one Federal army away from Lynchburg, Virginia, and clear into the West Virginia mountains where it disappeared. He met another near Frederick, Maryland, on the Monocacy River, and swept it aside. On fire with the glory of it all, forgetting his limited objective, Early now rasped out his orders to Maj. Gen. Robert Rodes, commander of the leading division: throw out a skirmish line; move forward into the enemy works; attack the capital of the United States.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...e-confederacy-

^^^^^^^^^ This is why I mentioned Jubal in my short list earlier. He was a just 6 miles outside D.C. a mere year and a week after the fateful Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. --Tyr