Posted on 05/12/2015 3:00:03 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
None of the current states with Federal institutions are effectively shut down by that presence.
something good for the kids???
What that says is that the 2nd Maine was mustered out, but some of the men in it still had time on their ticket, presumably because they signed up later than the rest. They refused to bear arms and were arrested. Chamberlain apparently talked most of them into fighting.
No, part of the regiment had signed up for three years and part for two. When the two year enlistements ran out the three-year men were transferred to the 20th Maine. Nobody had their enlistments forcibly extended because unlike the Confederacy the Union never resorted to that.
You are again confusing the timeline. The arrests of officials occurred after and in response to the attacks on soldiers, burning of bridges, etc.
Well said.
Yeah that one did an intellectual and historical whiplash on me.
I think it's even later than that. The events he is talking about occurred in September 1861, after the Confederacy had started the war. So in effect the disloyal members of the Maryland legislature were advocating a vote to join in the war against the U.S. Treason by any definition of the word, much less the definition outlined in the Constitution. So what should the U.S. have done? As it was the treasonous legislators got off easier than they deserved.
Lee and Washington are interchangeable men in history.
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Well, except for at least one thing.
One of them was victorious in bringing about change.
George Washington is the Father of our Country, not the Father of that portion of our Country which happens to be below the Potomac River.
Since this thread has devolved into pretending which way Washington would have gone vis a vis the Civil War, it is obvious that Washington would have been greatly offended by the South choosing to break away, undoing all the blood sweat and tears that went into forming the USA.
Boy I’ll bet you wish you had a “Way Back Machine’’, huh?
How about America. Have any love for her?
Imagine if you told them that five minutes after Pickett’s Charge.
Washington and Lee are cut from the same cloth.
My post is quite clear.
Do you really think the Southern soldiers even talked about slavery during the war? It was a non factor.
That doesn’t mean that the south didn’t go to war to defend the Particular Institution.
I don’t think it much mattered. When you got right down to cases I think the rebs just loved a good scrap.
You had your ear to the ground in them days, didn’t you General?
A lot of people confuse FedGov™ with America. Is it possible to hate FedGov™ and still be a patriotic American? Well is it?
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