Posted on 04/01/2019 5:16:53 AM PDT by devane617
Among other things the number of figures must reflect the current demographics of the US and will need to be changed as the population distribution changes. You never imagined that of the 15,000 Confederate soldiers involved in Pickett’s charge that 1,800 of them were black and 2,000 were Hispanic, did you? Oh yes, some 300 were gay and about 80 were trangendered.
Stonewall Jackson is not depicted there as he was killed during the Battle of Chancellorsville over one year prior to the Battle of Atlanta.
That’s next.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is about to be re-painted and corrected with hair weaves and darker skin.
Why not try and find something useful to do rather than whining over stuff in the past that CANNOT be changed. Whine whine cry cry.
My family were serfs in Europe before they escaped and came to the US in the 1840s. They never owned slaves and they were “owned” as part of the land they were on. They fought in the civil war from Iowa, the state that lost the greatest percentage of it’s population in the war, and not a one in Iowa owned a slave. They fought because they believed that no person should own another one.
My ancestor lost all 4 of his brothers and his arm in the war. What do we get, A DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS and daily called a racist because my skin is white!
The blacks in this country should pay the people that freed them. Lying two-faced Bastards. Grow up and fix the shit in your neighborhoods.
It is not my fault if you will not TRY to find a job or even try to raise your kids.
“...and about 80 were trangendered.”
I’m not sure getting your junk shot off by a cannon really counts.
Fort Pillow, the Crater, Poison Spring, and a number of other battles as well.
I thought the Atlanta Cyclorama had a history of many battles...not just the ones from Atlanta. Stonewall Jackson did die from friendly fire when his horse reared up. The southern kids I grew up with had a lot of reverence for Stonewall Jackson. And the guys on the football team had a lot of reverence for Defence wins Championships. And the Atlanta Cyclorama did have a depiction of a General who’s horse reared up and the General got shot by friendly fire.
Yeah Gee, The Atlanta Cyclorama is about the Battle of Atlanta. Stonewall Jackson was not there. I wonder who that general was who got shot by friendly fire?
There was a Union general, James McPherson, who got to close to Confederate lines during the campaign and was shot trying to get away. Perhaps it's him?
I think that the general you remember was General James B. McPherson, commander of the Army of the Tennessee which constituted the right wing of Sherman’s forces, the others being the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Ohio.
McPherson was killed by Confederate forces.
LOL!
Yeah, I thought of the Crater also...had forgotten about Poison Spring.
“Yet in the throng of faces surrounding her, there was only one that looked like hers”
Liberals think all blacks look alike.
“Fort Pillow comes to mind...Nathan Bedford Forrest’s men massacred
surrendering Black Union troops”
War criminals.
I support historical accuracy.
However, re-painting something which is 133-years old is not a good solution. This is just another way to tear down Civil War monuments and re-tell history in a Politically correct way. I oppose that 100%.
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Yeah.
“They was aliens I tell ya!”
I went to Gettysburg in the mid 60’s. I saw that cyclorama how ever I was only about 10 years old at the time so I missed the haystack thing.
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