Bill Kristol @BillKristol
Born today 205 years ago, Gen. George Thomas, a Virginian who fought for the Union and worked to protect freedmen after the war. In 1868 he denounced Southern revisionism as "political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism." https://t.co/LzuitePVa8 — PolitiTweet.org