tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5148045795463145866..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: The Removal of Robert E. Lee's Statue from CharlottesvilleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-45395880338731803622021-07-13T22:16:28.667-04:002021-07-13T22:16:28.667-04:00Given that Anonymous has linked to a Wikipedia ent...Given that Anonymous has linked to a Wikipedia entry on Thomas L. Rosser, I shall note there are some minor errors in it.<br /><br />Rather than dig in to those I shall note some items that are not in there at all, with them sort of a mixed bag of complimentary and not so much so.<br /><br />One not all that complimentary is that it does not bring out that he was outright fired by the Canadian Pacific Railway for inside dealing. It did not mention the town named after him in Manitoba. It mentioned another similar but lower key case, but in the case of Rosser, Manitoba, he basically decided that there would be a station at the location, then bought up the land around it, and made a lot of money when the station was built and the town was founded named for him. They got rid of him, but this is where he got the money to build the mansion on Rosser Lane in Charlottesville that is still known locally as "the Rosser mansion" although it has been used for student housing for many decades now, not too far from the UVa campus. <br /><br />Then there is the matter that even though he had been this big Confederate, he befriended Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War. When TR became president in 1901, he appointed TLR to become postmaster in Charlottesville, which Rosser accepted. Accepting an appointment from this Progressive Republican led many of his old friends to have nothing to do with him.<br /><br />Finally, he defended Custer at Little Big Horn, saying the whole campaign was due to "scalawags" in Washington who broke the treaties made with the Sioux Indians, whom he also admired. While he was working in Canada with the Canadian Pacific Railroad, the refugee Sioux, who fled after their pyrhhic victory over Custer, led by Chief Sitting Bull, showed up at one point where Rosser was working. They were starving. He gave them food. In return, Chief Sitting Bull gave him some artifacts in return, and I now own one of those, a beaded band, that I bought at an auction in the mid-1980s when the general's grandaughter, Elizabeth Rosser, was going into a nursing home, and all the family artifacts were sold off. rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-52947138838746247812021-07-13T17:21:28.984-04:002021-07-13T17:21:28.984-04:00Her name is painted on a wall next to where she wa...Her name is painted on a wall next to where she was killed on 4th Street there.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-4281777472196679222021-07-13T11:11:28.100-04:002021-07-13T11:11:28.100-04:00
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11068/thom...<br /><br /><br /><br />https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11068/thomas-lafayette-rosser<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Rosser<br /><br />Lee was right on that at least, perhaps a monument to Heather instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com