Truths of History . . .

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Here's the truth: President Reagan was right to try to do away with the NEA. It has effectively dumbed down almost 3 generations of Americans. Just the other night in Richmond, VA Confederate monuments were vandalized by protestors "protesting" the election results (as if that matters, but that is another subject). One of the monuments they vandalized was for Commodore Maury.

The ignorance of these miscreants is sickening. Completely sickening. So, in absence of REAL US history and education in the federal indoctrination systems we give you some TRUTHFUL history from Miss Millie.

"The name of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the one who suggested organizing the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the one who wrote the text book for the United States Navy; the one who revolutionized the sailing of the world by charts (the voyage around Cape Horn being shortened by forty days and at a saving to the Government of $40,000,000 annually) ; the one who suggested the Weather Bureau, and really was the one responsible for the National Observatory; the one who made Cyrus Field's Atlantic Cable a possibility; the one who redeemed the lands of the Mississippi ; the one who established the great circuit routes for ocean steamers; the one who traced the great Gulf Stream, this man of science cannot be left out of truthful history.

His name is not even found in the Congressional Library's list  of noted scientists because he cast his lot with the Confederate Cause. Maury was invited to become a member of every leading literary and scientific society in England and on the Continent; he was knighted by Russia, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, and France. Gold medals were bestowed upon him by Prussia, Australia , Sweden, Holland, Sardinia, Bremen and France.  Germany gave him the "Cosmos Medal," the only duplicate ever given. Cambridge University, England, gave him the degree of LL.D., and Berlin erected a monument to him with this inscription:

"A man whom kings delight to honor" and yet his own United States people, because he fought for the South, had his name erased from his wonderful charts, and refused to let
him be classed with the great men of science."

TRUTHS OF HISTORY
Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Historian General
United Daughters of the Confederacy
1911-1916