Thomas Jefferson’s great nephew, Thomas Garland Jefferson, was one of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) cadets who was killed by the U.S. government in the Battle of New Market (Virginia) in May of 1864. One Web site says that young Jefferson died “in the arms of his friend and fellow cadet, Moses Ezekiel”. Moses Ezekiel went on to become a world-famous sculpter who sculpted the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, unveiled by President Woodrow Wilson on June 4, 1914, almost fifty years to the day when he comforted his dying friend and VMI classmate.
The army that invaded New Market, Virginia, included many European mercenaries, many of whom were fresh from the jails of the Old World (led by the recent German immigrant Franz Sigel) who supposedly invaded Virginia on Abe Lincoln’s orders to teach such people as young Thomas Garland Jefferson what it “really” meant to be an American, i.e., the communistic European idea of unlimited submission to the “supremacy” of the central government. (Hat tip to Rev. Larry Beane).
5:03 pm on July 4, 2015
