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Historian. Veteran. Author “Robert E. Lee and Me.” Forthcoming 2025. “A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation’s Military Bases.”

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A PROMISE DELIVERED | Kirkus Reviews Well-crafted portraits of the heroes whose names recently replaced those of Confederates on numerous military installations.

First review is in for "A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases." Pub date: 11/11/2025.
"A sharp-edged argument for de-commemorating traitors."
The battle over the names has only just begun...
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

21.07.2025 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#RDay at #westpoint. New cadets still take a unique 1861 anti-Confederate oath. “This oath will not permit that . . . [a cadet] shall set aside his allegiance to the general Government whenever a band of traitors and rebels shall choose to set up a defiant authority.”
Here's Ike's 1911 Oath.

30.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book giveaway for A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases by Ty Seidule Jun 16-Jul 13, 2025 Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 16-Jul 13, 2025. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 advance reader copies of A Promi...

Trump may have changed the base names back, but we will still honor the heroes!
The battle continues.
Want a free copy of my upcoming book?
Goodreads is giving it away.
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

18.06.2025 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Eisenhower wrote this note the night before D Day. Taking responsibility in case the invasion failed. “The troops … did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.”
True leadership.

06.06.2025 02:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

@tyseidule.bsky.social I just finished read Robert E Lee ad Me. Thank you. I am taking my Texan great nephew to my state capital, Springfield Illinois this summer to visit Lincoln sites. His parents are concerned that he is not learning the full story of America at school. They may be right.

13.05.2025 03:29 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Birthday U.S. Grant. The finest soldier to ever wear a US Army uniform. Destroyed Lee’s army, freed 4m from human bondage, destroyed slavery “the cause and pretext of the rebellion,” saved democracy and the United States of America.
Huzzah!

27.04.2025 13:19 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s the definition of a “fan”? Gives a 1-star review on Goodreads 7 months before pub date.

13.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Named for the Enemy – AHA A historian and retired brigadier general explains how white supremacy and deference to "local sensibilities" created the US Army's Confederate problem.

From #AHAPerspectives in 2020: Historian and retired brigadier general @tyseidule.bsky.social explains how white supremacy and deference to "local sensibilities" created the US Army's Confederate problem. 🗃️

09.04.2025 16:01 — 👍 13    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Book giveaway for A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases by Ty Seidule Mar 31-Apr 27, 2025 Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Mar 31-Apr 27, 2025. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 advance reader copies of A Promi...

Hey folks! Want a a free copy of my next book: "A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases." We do tell the story of Hal and Julie Moore. Their names aren't on Fort Moore, but their legacy lives on.
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

03.04.2025 18:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

@tyseidule.bsky.social's book "Robert E. Lee and Me" is excellent for many reasons. It's especially enlightening on the names of U.S. Army bases.

I am constantly recommending this book.

14.02.2025 20:38 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0
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Opinion | Fort Bragg is back. Stop the re-renaming of Army bases there. Hegseth upheld our most important decision: Confederates don’t merit Defense Department commemoration.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Our OpEd on the naming of Fort Roland Bragg. The other names honor true American heroes.

12.02.2025 00:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

08.02.2025 03:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hey folks! Want to get a head start on ... your holiday 2025 shopping? It's never too early!
Preorder A PROMISE DELIVERED (hardcover or ebook) at bn.com from 2/5 to 2/7 and get 25% off with code PREORDER25. barnesandnoble.com/membership/
@macmillanlib.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

07.02.2025 01:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Worth remembering that the Naming Commission was inclined to replace Bragg with Medal of Honor recipient MSGT Ray Benividez, but the community -- and especially Gold Star families -- wanted the name Ft. Liberty.

28.01.2025 19:42 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2
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Robert E. Lee and Me "The narrator’s skill as an educator is evident in this production. Seidule's varied tone and pace keep listeners engaged while he describes historical eve...

Another good book about the South in the US after the Civil war is Robert E. Lee and Me. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

26.01.2025 01:43 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Books every White Southerner should Read:

Robert E. Lee and Me outlines U.S. Army General Ty Seidule's long and complex reckoning with the Lost Cause mythology of his upbringing and education in Virginia. It outlines how he was forced to reckon with the realities of Virginia History.

#civilwar

26.01.2025 14:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I just gave Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by @tyseidule.bsky.social a rare 5 star review. It was excellent.

24.01.2025 18:29 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Coming Veterans Day 2025!
"A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases."
The story of the namesakes of the army bases - true American heroes who fought for our country, not against it.
#history #usarmy #heroes

22.01.2025 17:29 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Mississippi should stop celebrating Robert E. Lee Column: Today, Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops celebrating Lee, a Confederate who chose treason and human bondage ove...

Today, Mississippi celebrates MLK and Robert E. Lee together. It’s wrong!
My OpEd.
#MLK #MLKDay

mississippitoday.org/2025/01/20/r...

20.01.2025 13:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey folks! A New Year’s deal. “Robert E Lee and Me” for a Buck 99.

08.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Just got done reading Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule (except the epilogue, tired). A very good read about coming to terms with the legacy of ones country and state. From here on, I shall refer to the old slave plantations as "enslaved labor farms" as Ty Seidule does.

22.12.2024 05:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks! The Confederates chose treason to preserve slavery. The US Army (including 190k Black soldiers) destroyed the Confederacy, freed 4m from human bondage, preserved democracy, and saved the United States of America!

06.12.2024 21:43 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
The cover of the book ROBERT E. LEE AND ME by Ty Seidule

The cover of the book ROBERT E. LEE AND ME by Ty Seidule

I wish every American would read Robert E. Lee and Me by @tyseidule.bsky.social

I'm a west coaster, born and raised, and even I had a lot of myths to dispel and propaganda to be disabused of. For starters, I'll never use the term 'Union Army' again. It was the US Army, the same then as it is now.

06.12.2024 17:20 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 2
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Another great non-fic work was "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause" by @tyseidule.bsky.social.

A compelling blend of memoir and history about the legacy of the Lost Cause Mythology in the U.S. military and the American South.

29.11.2024 16:36 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks! Great company!

24.11.2024 19:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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