Thanks for posting. My father was just laid to rest there in December. What a powerful place.

@HistorySavior1941

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and I’m so sorry for your loss. This is truly a place filled with real heroes.

Great video good job thumbs up

There's a lot left out and a lot wrong here. The first burials took place in 1864 - near the end of the Civil War - and were NOT around the house - they were placed north of the house in what is now Section 27. Meigs had ordered the burials take place around the house but the Union soldiers living there objected, so the burials took place down the hill from the house. Later on, when Meigs that the burials did not take place where he ordered that they be, he had officers buried around the house. I'm astonished that you could tell the story of Arlington without mentioning the great Montgomery Meigs. After the war, Meigs ordered that the remains of Confederate and Union soldiers be dug up and put into that common grave in the garden. Meigs designed the mausoleum. Meigs himself is buried in Arlington. You make it sound like the house was occupied by Union soldiers for no reason at all. Union soldiers were encamped up and down the Potomac River - on both the Union and Confederate sides of the river. They were there to protect Washington DC. The Arlington House was a perfect location for them because of the views across the river. I'm also astonished that you did not mention Selena Gray or the other slaves who toiled on the Arlington plantation and whose decedents are still in this area. I'm also astonished that you did not mention David Rubinstein who has paid for the renovation of the Arlington House and everything in it that you so carefully pointed out.

@drbuzzard518

8 ай бұрын

Montgomery Meigs was a glory hound who wanted to be remembered as important so he had the metal steps in the capitol dome cast with his name. He profited personally from his "great" position.

I am cousin to Lee's wife. He did not desert anything. There was a terrible war. I am a Randolph. . I have a friend and relatives buried there. That property belonged to my cousin.

Please support the descendants of Lee and the descendants of the slaves that worked at Arlington in their effort to have the National Park Service remove the honorary title of "memorial to Robert E. Lee" from the Arlington House!

Looking good buddy!

The park ranger's description re: the reason for the division is flawed. The real reason was over the issue of exorbitant and increasing tariffs, specifically the Morrill Tariff, which would have resulted in the southern and ensuing states becoming mere economic satellites of powerful northern interests

Robert E. Lee did not desert the U.S. Army. We forget that prior to the Civil War the states were sovereign. It is the states that created the union, not the other way around. Most people at the time considered their state to be their country. Lee resigned his commission to fight for what he saw as his country. People can debate whether it was right or wrong for him to do so, but that is the fact of what he did.

@HistorySavior1941

Жыл бұрын

Awesome points that I should have made. Thank you for adding that information as you are more than correct and thank you so much for watching!

@zbagz01

8 ай бұрын

Oh come on - he fought for the right for his "country" to keep slaves. Read Lincoln's Second Inaugural.

@drbuzzard518

8 ай бұрын

Slavery existred in the colonies before the Revolution. Why didn't the foiunding fathers abolish it. Because it was up to the colonies. We fail to remember that there were 13 little nations at the beginning of the Revolution and it was up to each of them how they would deal iwth the Revolution. There was no one nation until l788 and then it was "these united states" not "the united states". kuntil after the Civil War . Only 70 some odd years passed from Revolution to Civil WAr and slavery was a "statematter". The greater part of the gross domestic product of the US prior to the War was in human flesh, Yankee banks' security was human flesh so don't give me that moral hoopla often espeoused by norhterners who said it "was only business' when it comae to money and people.. Lincoln's second inaagural is to be taken as a political statement because he needed a reason for the war and to get people to fight. We know how he felt about black muss much less slaves and he would be condemned today by our modern moralists. Sorry to get angry but while slavery was an inssue and that can'tg be deniedand it was wrong, that reason only became a reality only because Lincoln needed a war aim. If he was so damned noble why didn't he free the slaves in Maryland, Delaware, Missouri and Kentucky which states didn't secede from the union. The Emancipation Proclamation dealt only with states in the Confederacy. Read it. Lincoln said "If you with us you can have all th slaves you want. If you're against us, their free.@@zbagz01

I was there..................... so cool....

Good job on the vid!

@HistorySavior1941

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Thanks for watching and for the kind comment!

A lot of parlors, sitting areas and morning room but didn't show any bedroom, kitchen, or dare I ask, bath areas?

@HistorySavior1941

6 ай бұрын

They were not accessible. I was wanting to see the same but those are upstairs. I agree that they should have been open to give a better understanding of the home.

If Lee deserted then so did Washington at the beginning of the Revolution. He had taken numerous oaths to the King being both a colonial military officer in the Va militia and a member ofthe House of Burgesses, etc. We tend to forget that. And Washington didn't resign.

@HistorySavior1941

8 ай бұрын

I agree. There was much more to the Revolution than what is taught. In my current series, that will be addressed.

THANK YOU David Rubenstein for restoring Arlington House!!!!!!!

@HistorySavior1941

4 ай бұрын

It’s an awesome place!

WOW

Went there to witness the changing of the guards. It is moving. Visited JFK's gravesite.

There is not one southern combative buried there

@HistorySavior1941

2 ай бұрын

That is true to my knowledge, although I do not want to say why that is true inaccurately. But I do not disagree

The number of factual errors here is astounding.

My uncle commander John J Donnelly is buried there section 69 plot 1010

I went to Washington DC ironically it was the same day then president trump was released from the military hospital from having covid we got to see the chopper landing on the White House lawn and president Trump getting off the helicopter and the first thing he did that iconic 👊 fist bump he always dose and it was very awesome to see a president in person for the only time as well as my youngest daughter and my wife Jane we stayed in a hotel and the next day we went to the Smithsonian institute the us capital building it wasn’t heavily guarded like it is now it was 2020 and you could have your own tour but since the riot it’s now all guarded tour with a armed police officer and a armed tour guide but after walking around to so many different locations in Washington we went to the Lincoln memorial seen the Jefferson memorial and so many more we was allowed to take a picture of the original Declaration of Independence and the bill of rights only without no flash because the sheepskin it was written on they have faded very badly so they are obviously well guarded but they have them in a show case and every 5 minutes they go down in the dark box below and you push a button to rise them up and you get to see them for 5 minutes and they go back down the older gentleman who was the person that was to protect them both showed us a picture of the back of the Declaration of Independence and plain as day you can see a palm print believing to be that of either president Thomas Jefferson because he was the person in charge of writing and drafting 5 copy’s of the declaration of independence’s and that was the way things were done in the 1700s or it was none other than the general public elected president George Washington’s hand print but to be honest no one really knows but has a idea it was one of the 2 who signed it I have a ton of information about many of the first 5 presidents mainly Washington i will do a video on that subject soon but i got off topic the best place i have ever been and i have been to some very interesting wonderful places as I was visiting and paying my respects to the tomb of the unknown soldiers on the building was getting a new renovation as well as the tomb from over time has been cracking and sinking into the foundation and what struck me the most how quiet it was their had to be over 20 people working on the tomb and the ground and the honor guard walking back and forth and not one person would get in his way of protecting the tomb and the ground and the old general Robert E Lees family residence even the people working on the building knew once they got in the guards way or per say was out of place he would immediately put them into their place very quickly so not even when they were replacing the cracks and fixing things on the monument the honer guard never stopped guarding the tombs of the unknown soldiers what a wonderful honor it was to see that and lastly I had to pay my respects to Mr president himself John f Kennedy and his wife Jackie and his brother who is in a private spot not too far about 25-30 feet as you are looking at the back of the building and his grave is to the right of John and Jackie’s grave and it was a wonderful honor to spend my 37th birthday just seeing the president was a wonderful birthday gift for me to close this store it should have started it but my wife said where do you want to go for your birthday I said Washington DC and i hope if you read this you get a chance to go to Virginia yourself and see how massive Arlington really is from google it says there are over 400.000 people in the cemetery including president Abraham Lincolns, youngest son i really hope yall understand what a great honor it is to be paying our respects to so many great men and women who gave their lives for us to be free in this wonderful country i can go down the list but over 400,000 people that all has a unique story god bless them all god bless you and god bless America 🇺🇸 the land of the free the home of the bravest people in the world and thank you so very much for sharing this amazing video with us and those who have never been to Washington DC and Virginia 🌎..

@HistorySavior1941

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you had an awesome time in DC. One think I have never had the chance to do is see a president up close so that must have been something. Arlington is one of my favorite places in the country and I go usually twice a year. I do have a few more videos coming from Arlington pretty soon on the channel as well. I have never had a lot of time in Virginia and have visited some places, but Mt. Vernon and Richmond on on the list for later this year as well. Thank you so much for the kind words and the awesome story of your experience in DC and Virginia. I hope you get to return soon. I really appreciate you watching and for all of the support! It means a ton to me!

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NAH - George Washington wasn't that fond of his adopted grandson. Wrote a letter to the boy's step-father saying that George Washington Parks Custis "appears to me to be moped and Stupid, says nothing, and is always in some hole or corner excluded from the Company".

@HistorySavior1941

8 ай бұрын

Really? Now you have my attention…I am definitely going to have to look that up. Sounds like a really interesting read. “Moped” & “Stupid” are really strong words for the time as well. I am really interested to see what I can dig up on this. Thank you for adding that. Intriguing information that I didn’t know. That is why this channel exists. To discuss history and learn together.

@zbagz01

8 ай бұрын

@@HistorySavior1941 Hi HS. The quote comes from a letter that Washington wrote to David Stewart. GWPC's father was John Parke Custis, Martha Washington's son. When John Parks Custis died, his children moved in with the Washingtons. GWPC's mother later remarried David Stewart. Anyway, it is part of a very long letter that is very chatty. I guess they were well acquainted. Washington also wrote letters to GWPC while GWPC was in school, encouraging him to buckle down and get serious about his studies. As much as GWPC adored his adopted grandfather, I don't think the feelings were mutual.

@HistorySavior1941

8 ай бұрын

Very cool information that I actually never knew. Is there a good source to find those letters? I would love to be able to thumb through those and learn more about the relationship that GWPC had with his grandparents. It definitely seems that even though he admired his GW, the feelings were not as mutual as one may think. Definitely makes you think about the entire situation with the Washington family. Thank you for sharing this!

@zbagz01

8 ай бұрын

@@HistorySavior1941 Hello History Savior 1941 - sorry for my sass. Since Martha burned all their letters, I guess it is hard to know how Washington truly felt about GWPC. Though he may not have been frank with Martha, considering this was her grandchild. However, my guess is that he was disappointed in GWPC. I think Washington would have truly liked being a father/mentor to a young man - to bring him up with the values and ideals that Washington himself held. GWPC seems to me to be a bit of a dilettante - and I say that as a wannabe dilettante myself. He had the means to indulge in artistic activities that led nowhere. His paintings are just weird. His daughter, Mary, was also an artist - perhaps better than him. R.E. Lee seemed like the kind of guy who would organize his records alphabetically. He was, after all, an engineer. I certainly hope that the NPS listens to the Lee and slave descendant and removes the honorific "memorial to R.E. Lee" from the Arlington house. It was never his, and he was only there for about four years and left a legacy of cruelty to the enslaved. Check out what the Lee descendants said about Charlottesville.

@drbuzzard518

8 ай бұрын

the legacy of cruelty is questionable. The fact is when his father in law died he could have sold off slaves to pay the debts of the estate because the will provided for thier emancipation after debts were paid which meant (and it was the practice at the time) for slaves to be sold to do so. Lee didn't and wouldn't. It is siad he had a slave whipped for running away but that is questionable and the news sources foir that are equally questionable because everyone had an opinion but didn't know the facts. Lee wanted no monument to him and said so before he died. His family, when asked about the Charlottesville monument, took the samek position. When, in l869, he was advised to get away for a vacation. He did and it wasn't a vacation. He believed he was going South to Savannah and see his fathers grave, etc. He was travelling with a daughter like a tourist not expecting what happened. Hundreds of thousands in the South hearing he was on the train lined the tracks, beat on the side of the coach and he ended up Hiding and eating on the train until it reached Columbia SC where thousands of veterans and old general weere wating. He finally revealed himself, shook hands with the generals and other officers, tipped his hat to the veterans and got back on the train. Woodrow Wilson was 12 years old when Lee arrived in Augusta. Lee stood in a hotel lobby silent, saying little and found himself shaking hands with hundreds of children with tabs pinned on their shirts and jackes. they were names after Lee. The old general felt he was a failure. He couldn't comprehend what was happening around him. The South needed and wanted a hero and he was their choice. He made not onc speech the entire trip. He was ill and was glad to get home. He had been offered lucrative employment after the war because okf his name. He turned them all down though he had basically nothing. He was even concerned about taking the presidency of the college because he felt that there would be those who, because he had led the Army of Northern Virginia, take out their vengeance on the school. His wife was an invalid and his mother was the same when he was growing up. He took the presidency of the college because he did know something about education . . . he had been superintendent of West Point in the years prior to the Civil War. he was an engineer and ended up in Texas in l860 fighting Indians because it meant a promotion and increase in pay. Just a few facts of which little is said. He was a man of his time. @@zbagz01

I appreciate your interest in history and your respectful video. But at one point you cite the film "Gods and Generals" as a source on Lee's thinking. Bad call. That film is shameless Lost Cause propaganda. In 1861 Lee was a colonel in the US Army and graduate of West Point, as were 7 other Virginians. Lee was the only one to join the CSA; the others stayed loyal to the USA. See Seidule (2021), p. 197.

@HistorySavior1941

5 ай бұрын

That is an excellent point and is 100 percent accurate. I often wondered what the minds of these men were like when having to make the decision on who to fight for. It is an interesting subject and one that is so overlooked. I will most definitely like to check out the source cited here and give it a read.

@kevinlewallen4778

5 ай бұрын

@@HistorySavior1941 Thanks for your gracious reply. Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me (2021). The author is a retired army officer who taught history at West Point. The book outlines his personal journey from Lost Cause zealot to skeptic, with lots of history along the way.

How many Soldiers did it take to bury Thomas Jefferson and Virginia in Hell, the One that God Made? My father’s house has many mansions, Virginia went to Hell in all of them Monticello and Montpelier.

@HistorySavior1941

Жыл бұрын

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@williammurray8060

9 ай бұрын

Northern Virginia is slowly going to Hell,you are correct.

TO THE VICTORS GO THE SPOILS

@drbuzzard518

8 ай бұрын

And karma can be a bitch. The Lee family recovered Arlington and the governmentended up having to pay what GWPC Lee, the rightful heir of his mother wanted. Along with the US having to recover items of Wasnington's stolen from the home which caused a great deal of private pain and embarrassment with some notables of the time such as Meigs familh actuallh being searched because the government had to recover the items Iand they did for most of them and paid waht the Lees' wanted for the rest. Most of what belonged to Washington from and some that are at Mount vernon, Arlington and such places as Valley Forge and Yorktown are on permanent loan from the Lee family. Congress, burdened with a war debt, wasnnt hnappy about having to come p with the cash and the political retribution quietly applied but kept quiet and some lost to history was exacting and embarrassing. There was no Victor here. They were thieves and knew it and paid for it dearly to keep from naving to dig up all those bodies (over l7 thousand it is said) and restore the place as it was when Mrs. Lee lived there. that included replacing the trees and orchards.,. As for Robert E. Lee, he didn't own it andnever did. His father in law was the grandson of Martha Custis Washington and widow of the richest man in Virginia, John Parke Custis. . He had one child who married Robert E. Lee. When WAshington died Mount vErnon went toanother relative but all that was inside whent to Martha and subsequently to Lee's father in law and then to Lee's wife. GWPCustis was a poor businessmean who built Arlington as a shrine to Washington. RE Lee's dad was Henry Lee known as Light Horse Harry Lee who, like GWP Custis was a poor steward of his wealth while Light Horse harry actually abandoned his family despite his family s good name (two others signed the Declaration of Independence). Why they call it Lee's home is a misnomer because, being in the service, he wasn't there very much pr his family lived on post. When Lee's father in law died RE Lee had a mess on his hands with the estate. I am reminded of the argument about why George WAshington didn't free his slaves except for one. That is because they weren't all his. Most of them were "Custis slaves", tied up in the estates of Martha Washington's famiiies ; estates and over the years those belonging to Washington intermarried with the one's belonging to the Parke/Custis side and he wasn't going to break up families which would have happened if he did so.