Posted on 07/30/2013 7:15:08 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Nope. Here's a neat site showing CSA deaths by state. NC and VA are roughly tied, with AL not far behind.
Since VA had a population of 1.2M or so, and NC about 1M, NC lost a slightly higher percentage of its men. But nowhere near double.
http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html
It's surprising how unevenly the deaths were distributed.
The idea that a copperhead aka “peace democrat” would be part of the underground railroad is a sick joke meant to whitewash that fact that northern democrats never did switch parties like the modern liberals try and push with the the myth of the southern strategy...
You have succinctly explained why BOTH sides lost the war.
Be sure to fire the first shot.
The South did not institute any embargo until after Lincoln attacked Sumter and Pensacola.
Virginia has always wanted the top spot in battlefield deaths. In 1866 they were in fourth place. For 140 years they’ve been counting. So we say that NC and Virginia are basically tied in battlefield deaths. I can deal with that.
NC, with fewer men, sent some 132 thousand men to fight for the cause, compared to Virginia’s 120,000. Maybe their still counting these numbers too.
Actually - be sure to get er done in one shot...
Here’s an interesting discussion of the issue.
What it probably comes down to is that the numbers are too incomplete to provide a really accurate answer. The Union Army figures are reasonably complete and accurate. CSA, not so much.
Lincoln was elected as per the Constitution, that’s all you need to know or worry about.
Mos sources say 120,000 men from Virginia served in the Confederate Army. 133,000 from North Carolina served in the Confederate Army. North Carolina was the only state that provided it’s men with uniforms and after the war compiled the best records of any other state. They also provided free prostetics to men who has lost limbs, and a pension for anyone that applied, including black confederates. No accurate number of black confederates that served or were killed has been accomplished, at least I have not heard of one.
The south won last time. The insurrection was put down, and the vicious and wealthy plantation owners that enslaved black and white lost the power to enslave.
"The Constitution of No Authority" is an interesting read. It's available via Gutenberg
Lincoln won a majority of the votes that mattered. Even if the Democrats ran a single candidate and got all the votes that they got with different candidates, Lincoln would have won.
The party of slavery just wasn’t very popular in most of the country.
Perhaps you mean ‘differently biased’.
I thought that only about 250,000 Americans died in the war--the rest were Yankees.
The south started the insurrection and war to protect, further, and extend the institution of human slavery.
The United States put down their violent insurrection.
My personal choice would be a study of the 1st Alababama Cavalry, the cavalry unit that General Sherman trusted above all others.
But there would not be any Slavery for which the south would start their insurrection.
Unless you propose an insurrection to restore slavery?
But he did receive an absolute majority of the votes in enough states to be elected. So even if the Democrats had united behind Douglas, Lincoln still would have won.
Edmund Ruffin in April 1861? Or Edmund Ruffin in June 1865?
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