Memoir of Charles Francis Adams
Memoir of Charles Francis Adams
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At the meetings of the Historical Society, over which Mr. Adams as President presided, he generally brought forth some unusual theories upon well-settled historical subjects, and to maintain them was obliged to ignore previously determined facts, to the amusement of those members present, and in 1908, after a few days visit to Greece, he returned with a plan of his own of the battle of Marathon, and a description wholly different from any before suggested, which swept aside the statements of He...rodotus, and all subsequent historians, in order to support his erroneous views. Early in 1908 he was invited by the committee in charge of the erection of a statue, to the memory of the leader of the con federate forces of the Rebellion, to deliver the address at its 6 dedication in Richmond, Virginia. There is no doubt that such a monument would have been very distasteful to General Lee, who was greatly mortified, at the close of his life, at the part he had taken during the war, and sorrow that such a struggle had taken place oppressed him until his death, and it is also certain that for an officer of the Union army to take any part in such a ceremony, and above all a central place, was, to say the least, in hopelessly bad taste, as was admitted by both sides, but the desire to be conspicuous and the conviction that what- ever he did was right, without regard to the usually accepted ethics in such a case, led Mr.
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At the meetings of the Historical Society, over which Mr. Adams as President presided, he generally brought forth some unusual theories upon well-settled historical subjects, and to maintain them was obliged to ignore previously determined facts, to the amusement of those members present, and in 1908, after a few days visit to Greece, he returned with a plan of his own of the battle of Marathon, and a description wholly different from any before suggested, which swept aside the statements of He...rodotus, and all subsequent historians, in order to support his erroneous views. Early in 1908 he was invited by the committee in charge of the erection of a statue, to the memory of the leader of the con federate forces of the Rebellion, to deliver the address at its 6 dedication in Richmond, Virginia. There is no doubt that such a monument would have been very distasteful to General Lee, who was greatly mortified, at the close of his life, at the part he had taken during the war, and sorrow that such a struggle had taken place oppressed him until his death, and it is also certain that for an officer of the Union army to take any part in such a ceremony, and above all a central place, was, to say the least, in hopelessly bad taste, as was admitted by both sides, but the desire to be conspicuous and the conviction that what- ever he did was right, without regard to the usually accepted ethics in such a case, led Mr.
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