{"id":1997574,"date":"2023-08-11T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plaque-honoring-robert-e-lees-horse-removed-at-washington-lee-university\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:01:16","slug":"plaque-honoring-robert-e-lees-horse-removed-at-washington-lee-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plaque-honoring-robert-e-lees-horse-removed-at-washington-lee-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaque honoring Robert E. Lee&#8217;s horse taken down at Washington &#038; Lee University."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fplaque-honoring-robert-e-lees-horse-removed-at-washington-lee-university%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Washington &#038; Lee University Removes Plaque Honoring Robert E. Lee&#8217;s Horse<\/h2>\n<p>Washington &#038; Lee University, initially named Augusta Academy,\u200c then Liberty Hall Academy before being renamed for America\u2019s first president George Washington and \u200cConfederate General \u200cRobert E. Lee, has made a significant change to\u200d its campus. The university\u2064 has decided to remove the plaque honoring Lee&#8217;s famed\u2064 steed, Traveller.<\/p>\n<p>The plaque, which was mounted over Traveller&#8217;s gravesite outside Lee Chapel, read, &#8220;The last home of Traveller. Through war and \u2062peace \u200bthe faithful,\u2063 devoted and beloved horse of General Robert\u2062 Lee. Placed by the Virginia Division, United\u2062 Daughters of the Confederacy.&#8221; Last\u200b month, \u200dthe university also removed plaques \u200dfrom the room where Lee took his oath of office and\u200b his office during his presidency at the school.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;and the horse you rode in on.&#8221; It appears that Washington and Lee University is not only cancelling Lee \u2063but even his horse. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CyWXu5uhzy\">https:\/\/t.co\/CyWXu5uhzy<\/a> Traveler was originally put \u2063down for untreatable tetanus but will now be put\u2064 down again by equally\u2063 untreatable cancel culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1688869534097080321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8,\u200b 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Traveller \u2064was a beloved part of\u2063 the campus story,&#8221; says Kamron Spivey, president of Students for Historical \u2064Preservation. &#8220;People like to hear tales\u200c about\u200b animals because they \u200ddo\u200b no wrong. That is how Traveller has been immortalized\u200b in campus \u200chistory. He was a faithful horse whose beauty and\u2062 loyalty Robert\u2064 E. Lee said would inspire poets. Until this\u2063 month, very few\u2063 people seemed bothered by the horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spivey continues,\u2064 &#8220;Due to a misappreciation \u200cof Lee&#8217;s contributions and\u2062 positive legacy as an \u2063educator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medical-professor-warned-colleagues-that-schools-racial-preferences-were-illegal-and-he-was-removed-from-directorship-now-hes-suing\/\" title=\"Medical Professor Warned Colleagues That School\u2019s Racial Preferences Were Illegal And He Was Removed From Directorship. Now He\u2019s Suing.\">university officials<\/a> think any reference to the man is detracting from student enrollment. Rather \u200dthan confront the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-city-airport-shootout-reveals-links-to-vast-criminal-underworld\/\" title=\"Mexico City Airport Shootout Reveals Links to Vast Criminal Underworld\">issue directly<\/a>, they are trying to\u200b secretly hide their \u2063history\u200d from the world. The university \u2063should keep the original markers. If the goal is to contextualize a historic site, there is no better place than the original location they\u2064 were erected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The History \u2064of Washington &#038; Lee University<\/h3>\n<p>Augusta Academy, founded in \u200d1749, underwent several name changes before \u200dbecoming Liberty\u2062 Hall Academy in 1776 as a tribute to the American revolutionaries. In 1796, the school faced financial\u200d trouble, and \u2062U.S. President George Washington \u200dcame to its aid by donating 100\u200b shares of James \u2063River Canal Company stock. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plaque-honoring-robert-e-lees-horse-removed-at-washington-lee-university\/\" title=\"Plaque honoring Robert E. Lee's horse taken down at Washington &#038; Lee University.\">generous donation contributed \u2063significantly<\/a> \u200bto the\u2063 university&#8217;s operating budget.<\/p>\n<p>The grateful trustees renamed\u2064 the \u2064institution\u2063 Washington\u200d Academy, to which Washington responded,\u2062 &#8220;To promote Literature in \u200cthis rising Empire, \u2063and to encourage the Arts, have ever been among the warmest\u200c wishes of \u200cmy \u2062heart.&#8221;\u2064 In 1813, Washington Academy became\u2063 Washington College.<\/p>\n<p>Four months after Lee surrendered \u2064to \u2064Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, \u200bthe \u2064Washington College \u2063board of trustees invited Lee \u2062to become \u200dthe college&#8217;s president. During \u200dhis tenure, Lee\u2062 made numerous contributions, including incorporating the local law school, \u200cintroducing undergraduate courses in business and journalism, expanding offerings\u200c in the natural sciences, and endorsing a lasting \u200dtradition\u200c of student self-governance.<\/p>\n<p>After Lee&#8217;s death in 1870, the faculty requested\u200b that the college \u2062be renamed\u2062 in\u200c his honor, thus creating Washington and Lee University.<\/p>\n<p>The University&#8217;s Board\u2064 of Trustees \u200dwrote in 2021, &#8220;Our community holds\u2062 passionate and\u2063 divergent opinions about our name. The association with our namesakes\u2064 can be painful to those who continue to experience racism, especially to African Americans, and is seen by some as an impediment to \u200bour \u2064efforts to attract and support a diverse \u2064community. For others, our \u2064name is an appropriate recognition of\u2064 the specific\u200d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">significant contributions<\/a> each man made directly to\u200b our institution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington &amp; Lee University, formerly Augusta Academy and Liberty Hall Academy, has taken down the plaque commemorating General Robert E. Lee&#8217;s horse, Traveller. The plaque was situated above Traveller&#8217;s burial site near Lee Chapel, a significant historical landmark. The inscription, &#8220;The noblest of all the horses,&#8221; has been removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1997575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}