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A. In the past, the elite manipulated the population through a more
mystical belief system. In particular, there was the institution of
Sun worship (typified by deities such as Osiris and Set). However,
as antiquity gave way to modern history, this system of control
began to lose its effectiveness. During the sixteenth century, the
ruling class managed to co-opt a relatively new methodology of
truth discernment...science. Over the years, they would contaminate
this institution with their own virulent strains of
thought...metaphysical naturalism, radical empiricism,
Malthusianism, Darwinism, behaviorism, radical environmentalism,
etc. Many of these paradigms were derivative of their own occult
doctrines, thinly veiled to appear as objective science. All of
these concepts correlate in some way and, at some point, coalesce.
Together, they are gradually paving the way for the re-introduction
of the hidden god of the Ancient Mysteries.
From First Manassas in 1861 to Third Winchester in 1864, Robert
Rodes served in all the great battles and campaigns of the
legendary Army of Northern Virginia. Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall
Jackson's renowned mapmaker, expressed the feelings of many
contemporaries when he declared that Rodes was the best division
commander in Lee's army. A combat officer of this stature deserves
a complete and deeply researched biography, and now he finally has
one in Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern
Virginia: A Biography. A graduate of the Virginia Military
Institute and a prewar railroad engineer, Rodes was one of only a
handful of officers in the Confederate army to rise so high without
the benefit of a West Point education. That fact that he did so
speaks to his well-earned reputation as a courageous and inspiring
leader who routinely delivered hard-hitting attacks and stout
defensive efforts. His greatest moment on the field came at
Chancellorsville in the spring of 1863, when he spearheaded
Stonewall Jackson's famous flank attack that crushed the left wing
of General Hooker's Army of the Potomac. But like all men, he was
not perfect. In his next fight at Gettysburg, Rodes faltered,
turning in a curiously disjointed and apathetic performance that to
this day raises questions that remain only partially answered. But
he was much more than just a combat leader. Rodes' prewar life,
which has been left largely unexplored, shaped the general he was
destined to become. The native of Lynchburg, Virginia, was a VMI
instructor, a hard working engineer, a loving husband, a loyal
friend, and a very complex man. The strict disciplinarian entered
the conflict with a deep yearning for recognition and glory,
coupled with an indifferent attitude toward religion and salvation.
When he was killed at the height of his combat career at Third
Winchester on September 19, 1864, a trove of prayer books and
testaments were found on his corpse. Based upon exhaustive new
research that puts flesh and blood on the man and the general,
Darrell Collins' biography, now available in paperback, breathes
life into this largely overlooked man of the South. Although Rodes'
widow consigned his personal papers to the flames after the war,
Collins uncovered a substantial amount of firsthand information to
complete his compelling portrait of the life, mind, and combat
career of one of Robert E. Lee's most dependable field generals.
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