Posted on 05/26/2017 2:44:11 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Today's icon-smashers 'could never build a country'
On Sept. 1, 1864, Union forces under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, victorious at Jonesborough, burned Atlanta and began the March to the Sea where Sherman’s troops looted and pillaged farms and towns all along the 300-mile road to Savannah.
Captured in the Confederate defeat at Jonesborough was William Martin Buchanan of Okolona, Mississippi, who was transferred by rail to the Union POW stockade at Camp Douglas, Illinois.
By the standards of modernity, my great-grandfather, fighting to prevent the torching of Georgia’s capital, was engaged in a criminal and immoral cause. And “Uncle Billy” Sherman was a liberator.
Under President Grant, Sherman took command of the Union army and ordered Gen. Philip Sheridan, who had burned the Shenandoah Valley to starve Virginia into submission, to corral the Plains Indians on reservations. It is in dispute as to whether Sheridan said, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” There is no dispute as to the contempt Sheridan had for the Indians, killing their buffalo to deprive them of food.
Today, great statues stand in the nation’s capital, along with a Sherman and a Sheridan circle, to honor these most ruthless of generals in that bloodiest of wars that cost 620,000 American lives.
Yet, across the South and even in border states like Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, one may find statues of Confederate soldiers in town squares to honor the valor and sacrifices of the Southern men and boys who fought and fell in the Lost Cause.
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I had in mind burning Harriet Tubman’s house
There would be no free trade involved with that action
I believe that has already happened, but forget the specifics.
Harriet Tubman is a myth and a lie.
"Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Wednesday that protects Confederate memorials from removal or modification. "
All Cross Monuments are next to go.
Ironically, that is what the symbol means, to crucify.
Go for it.
Agree. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial in DC will be next and anything with “Washington.” That’s my guess.
You know....you’re onto something.....
What if conservatives immediately mount a campaign to discredit and have removed all references and statues of liberal progressive icons......
Almost all of them have quotes of racisim and hatred......
Targeting that slimeball Woodrow Wilson would be a good start.....
What conservatives who side with BlackLivesMatter thugs in defaming Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis don't realize or admit is that this isn't really about the Confederacy or about slavery at all. It's an attack on American history, on white people, and on western culture. Confederates just happen to be an easy and convenient early target. The radical Left wants to tear down monuments to Washington and Jefferson, but for the time being they'll have to settle for easier targets like memorials to Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis. And as a bonus, they even get some stupid conservative Republicans to take their side, in much the same way as the multicultural Left has joined hands on immigration with the cheap labor "right."
Yes, but Third World people continue to contribute such great things to humanity as suicide bombings, the MS-13 street gang, and the knockout game.
Mother’s day will remain because of International Women’s MONTH.
But Father’s day perpetuates the patriarchy. In recent years advertisers have even taken to celebrating single mothers on Father’s day because ‘women’.
Tubman's so-called achievement amounted to helping some of her family members escape to non-slave states. Does that really merit being on the face of our currency? It seems to me even our most mediocre placeholder Presidents are more deserving than that.
Sherman didn’t burn Atlanta. And Sheridan’s animus toward Indians was rooted in the reality that they were enemies of the white settlers on the Plains. Neither man was a villain.
But then, neither were Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, or Jefferson Davis. All were honorable men who fought for their principles, and whose principles were worth fighting for.
Exactly so. I am dismayed that FR defenders of the CSA have chosen doctrinaire Marxist economic determinism to explain the War.
Meanwhile, down in Arkansas, the democrats have thrown out the Jefferson-Jackson dinner and replaced it with the Bill Clinton dinner-because Jefferson and Jackson owned (gasp) SLAVES!
So they went and named the dinner after bj. From racist to rapist.
The Lincoln memorial has Fascist symbols on it! His hands rest on them on the chair.
Could you give an example of a post that gives a "Marxist" interpretation of the US Civil War?
One of the most honest interviews I have ever seen was by a news commentator who happened to be a full-blooded Comanche. He basically said "let's be honest, the white man came here, kicked our asses, and stole our land....exactly like my ancestors did to other Indian tribes". This was many years ago...obviously no such comment would be allowed today.
Exactly. The tribes that were here in 1492, were constantly at war with their neighbors, because the limited natural resources were essential to their survival.
The white men were just another tribe....................
Oh yeah who is that on the TV show Underground? 😄
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