it was not those confederate generals that liberated the ancestors of arthur ashe. it was ulysses s. grant and company that liberated those ancestors, that statue now stands there. altogether fitting, especially for underlying the ambiguity of a great deal of our memories of the civil war as southerners. that's another thing i wish we could get more into our public rhetoric. and that is honest ambivalence and willingness to be ambiguous about those loyalties that shape this country from its past. another one of my favorite southerners was that nameless soldier whom shelby identifies as being part of longstreet's army. marching along and the soldier was tagging along at the end of a column. and as he trudged there, longstreet came up on his horse and with some compassion said, you think you'll make it, soldier? and he replied, yeah, general, i think i'll make it. but i hopes to god i never loves another country. times in my own life as an american citizen where i wonder about that. i wonder about that in my basic infantry training in alabama. named after a general th

it is irony that arthur ash is standing there tall with his tennis racket on monument avenue. it's also an irony that we are in this meeting here in a city, washington, d.c., which was the subject of what joseph ellis calls the most important dinner party in the history of the united states, the party in which james madison, thomas jefferson, and alexander hamilton met around jefferson's dinner table to see if they could decide in 1790 whether or not the federal government should be charged or permitted to assume the war debts of the revolution. and that was feared especially by virginia politicians because they didn't want the federal government to be that centrally involved in the economics of their new nation. as a compromise, or as a way of making it possible to yield to alexander hamilton's favoring of this proposal, jefferson and madison urged that the new national capital be located where it is now on the banks of the potomac. and if you look at that right now, that's full of irony. joseph ellis said, by selecting the potomac location, the congress had implicitly decide

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