On June 10th at Fort Bragg, President Trump returned honor to southern soldiers who fought in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, and more. He did this by reinstating the names of Confederate soldiers to bases that had been renamed by President Biden. Hopefully the Louisiana National Guard will rename Camp Beauregard to honor PGT Beauregard.
When World War I started, the US Department of Defense decided to name northern bases after Union soldiers and southern bases after Confederate soldiers. This was seen as being necessary for morale of the troops. During the 20th century, southern bases were where those drafted from the South were sent. Many were descendants of Confederate soldiers. Those soldiers served America well and with success. Like the Confederate soldiers, for WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam they were drafted into military service.
However, starting in 2016 with former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, many sought fame and fortune by creating a division in America over an event that had long passed and been reconciled. Like Landrieu, these people used false information to achieve their goals.
Landrieu often claimed that Robert E Lee had never been to New Orleans and had no connection to New Orleans. In the 1830s, Robert E Lee was the with the US Army Corps of Engineers and assigned to “Tame the Mississippi River.” Which he did. He was responsible for the entire Mississippi River valley and increased the volume of product going through the port of New Orleans.
He was later stationed in New Orleans during the Mexican American War, and bought a horse, which he named Creole before shipping out. Later Lee was the first Union officer in New Orleans, after Louisiana seceded in 1861.
Another person seeking fame was Robert W Lee IV, a minister, who first claimed to be a descendant of Robert E Lee. This got Robert W Lee on MTV, CNN, invited to say the pray at Joe Biden’s inauguration and more appearances. He also wrote books. It was easy to question the truth of Robert W Lee IV, as how could he be a descendant of Robert E Lee with the middle name of “Wright” instead of “Edward.”
However, the most notorious person is now Retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule. Seidule was vice chair of the Base Re-Naming Commission. In Seidule’s book, “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause,” like Landrieu and Robert W Lee IV, he seeks fame by telling falsehoods against Mexican-American War Heroes and those who fought for their states in 1861, even though they opposed the war. Landrieu endorsed Seidule’s book on the back cover.
Seidule falsely attacks PGT Beauregard. On Page 152, Seidule falsely claims that Katherine Wing, who taught Critical Race Theory at the University Iowa was a descendant of, Sally Hardin, a slave that PGT raped at the BK House, formerly named the Beauregard-Keyes House. Seidule writes that. Beauregard owned the “mansion,” lived there with his family, and at night would go out back and rape slaves living in a confined area, fathering a child with Sally Hardin.
However, everyone in New Orleans should know that PGT Beauregard did not live in the house until after the end of the Civil War and was rented a small room during those eighteen months.
Beauregard’s accomplishments are numerous and include: designing the battle plan that won the Mexican-American War, being the first American to deploy a submarine to sink an enemy ship, designing the engineering for New Orleans Street Cars and San Francisco’s Cable Cars, and writing in 1873 words for a chant that can be argued are the framework of the 1892 Pledge of Allegiance.
Seidule, who is the former head of the history department at the United States Military Academy at West Point, responded to Trump and described PGT and the others, who have bases named after them, as “They represent the worst of America.”
Landrieu, Seidule, and Rob W Lee and the others that seek fame and fortune by dividing America with false stories, should evaluate what part of America they represent. Credit to President Trump for correcting a costly mistake to the moral of America’s Military by returning the naming of southern bases to their orginal intent.
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