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A Confederate General in Brooklyn
New Orleans took down memorials last month, but New York still has an avenue—and a tree—honoring Robert E. Lee.
By Robert Sullivan
When the city of New Orleans took down its last Confederate statue, of General Robert E. Lee, Representative Yvette Clarke, of New York's Ninth Congressional District, had a local take. She tweeted, "We should do likewise with General Lee Avenue in Brooklyn."
Clarke was referring to a street in Bay Ridge that is also named for the Confederate Army leader. Half a mile long, and two lanes wide, it is the main thoroughfare inside the U.S. Army garrison at Fort Hamilton, the city's only active military base, which is fenced off from the surrounding neighborhood. All of the base's streets are named for generals: Pershing Loop, for John Pershing; Marshall Drive, for George Marshall; Washington Drive, for George Washington. Lee served at Fort Hamilton in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1841 to 1846. This fact is memorialized on a boulder at the base's entrance, which, an inscription notes, was installed by the New York chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
More: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/a-confederate-general-in-brooklyn
New Orleans took down memorials last month, but New York still has an avenue—and a tree—honoring Robert E. Lee.
By Robert Sullivan
When the city of New Orleans took down its last Confederate statue, of General Robert E. Lee, Representative Yvette Clarke, of New York's Ninth Congressional District, had a local take. She tweeted, "We should do likewise with General Lee Avenue in Brooklyn."
Clarke was referring to a street in Bay Ridge that is also named for the Confederate Army leader. Half a mile long, and two lanes wide, it is the main thoroughfare inside the U.S. Army garrison at Fort Hamilton, the city's only active military base, which is fenced off from the surrounding neighborhood. All of the base's streets are named for generals: Pershing Loop, for John Pershing; Marshall Drive, for George Marshall; Washington Drive, for George Washington. Lee served at Fort Hamilton in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1841 to 1846. This fact is memorialized on a boulder at the base's entrance, which, an inscription notes, was installed by the New York chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
More: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/a-confederate-general-in-brooklyn
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