Posted on 01/11/2021 11:20:46 AM PST by maddogtiger
General David Hunter didn’t accomplish much in the Valley
General Philip Sheridan is the man that made the Shenandoah valley so bare that the crows had to fly across it carrying their own rations. This was per General Grant’s orders.
LOL!
Do you know what would have saved more lives? Letting the Southern states have the independence that the Declaration of Independence promised was a right of all people.
Sherman was one of America’s greatest heroes.
He should have completely exterminated those racist slave-owning Southern hillbillies 150 years ago.
If it weren’t for the South, there’d be no racism in America!
‘Letting the Southern states have the independence’....
Really, how about the lives of enslaved people?
Democrats are always deciding what race, age or type of human is really a person. Don’t be a Democrat.
Since it wasn't a problem while the Southern states remained part of the United States, it shouldn't have been a problem when they went independent. Indeed, not only did there remain five slave states in the Union during the war, but Abraham Lincoln and the entire Northern portion of the Congress voted to make slavery permanent by passing the Corwin amendment through both houses of congress.
Trying to tell me someone was concerned about enslaved people *AFTER* they voted to keep them enslaved forever is just blowing smoke up people's @$$es.
Not exactly a good sell.
Yes, there were Lurkin indian fighters. And like the Lurkin men who fought for the Northern states, it was war.
Now you’ve done it. 800 replies minimum.
Massachusetts was the first colony leagalize slavery.
Liar, that is complete Bull Sh*t.
“Abraham Lincoln and the entire Northern portion of the Congress voted to make slavery permanent”
Buchanan was President when Congress approved the Corwin Amendment. It did not make slavery permanent. It only reaffirmed what the Republican Party held — that Congress had no authority over the domestic institutions of the states. (The Southern states could under the amendment have eliminated slavery at any time.) The Republicans did claim authority for Congress to prevent the expansion of slavery and Lincoln thought if its expansion could be stopped, it would wither and die. Lincoln carefully distinguished his personal view of slavery — strong opposition — from the authority he thought he had under the Constitution once he became President.
We are all aware that it did not get ratified, but the news here is that the Republicans, at Lincoln's urging *VOTED* to pass it.
Had it been sufficient to persuade the seceded states to remain, it would have been ratified and become law. Slavery would be permanent in the US till the very last state gave it up voluntarily.
The point is that they were lying when they claimed to have fought the civil war to free slaves. They never intended to free slaves when they started the war, and they didn't decide to do it until nearly two years into the war, and only then because they saw it as militarily and politically advantageous to themselves.
Their real feeling was that continued slavery was quite acceptable to them. States becoming independent of Washington DC was not.
Of far more importance is Sheman’s willfull choice not to destroy the Augusta Gunpowder Woks.
Three times Sherman made that mistake in his campaign. During which the Augusta Works shipped over 500,000 pounds of gunpowder. At the peak, they made 58,000 cartridges a day.
Sherman’s choices lengthened the Civil War and resulted in the deaths and maiming of untold numbers of men on both sides as surely as it extended the suffering of civilians.
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