Posted on 04/22/2015 7:51:55 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
You are correct that WWII was devastating to German civilians but, in order to compare the two situations, you would have to believe that declaring war on foreigners abroad is the same as declaring war on your own countrymen. The motives for going to war with Germany were totally different than the motives for invading the South. The Confederate cause did not include attacking, invading the North or antagonizing the North in other ways. By the way, you may not see me weeping for the German civilians but you don’t see me not weeping either.
If that were the case, there wouldn't have been a war. Confederate forces were doing what they could to "antagonize the North" -- seizing and destroying property, inciting rebellion, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the entire point of the confederacy was their claim that they were no longer part of the United States and were, in fact, now a foreign country. You can't declare yourself a different country, then complain that you're treated like one.
The Confederate cause did not include attacking, invading the North or antagonizing the North in other ways.
Yeah, shelling Fort Sumter wasn't the least bit antagonizing to the United States.
Sumter gets all the attention but there were many more federal institutions attacked and seized:
Alabama seizures:
United States Arsenal at Mount Vernon
Fort Morgan
Fort Gaines
Arkansas seizures:
United States Arsenal at Little Rock
United States ordnance stores at Napoleon
United States subsistence stores at Pine Bluff
Fort Smith
Florida seizures:
United States Arsenal at Apalachicola
Fort Marion
Barrancas Barracks
Fort Barrancas
Fort McRee
Pensacola Navy Yard (Warrington Ship Yard)
Georgia seizures:
Fort Pulaski
United States Arsenal at Augusta
Oglethorpe Barracks
Fort Jackson
Dahlonega Mint
Louisiana seizures:
United States Arsenal at Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge Barrack
Fort Jackson
Fort Saint Philip
Fort Pike
Fort Macomb
United States paymasters office at New Orleans
New Orleans Mint
Mississippi seizure:
Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island
Missouri seizures:
United States Arsenal at Liberty
United States ordnance stores at Kansas City
North Carolina seizures:
Fort Johnston
Fort Caswell
Fort Macon
United States Arsenal at Fayetteville
Charlotte Mint
Texas seizures:
United States Arsenal at San Antonio
San Antonio Barracks
Camp Verde
Fort Clark
Mega-trolling.
Reagan was a much better actor than he’s given credit for.
Remember “King’s Row”?
I do. It’s been a long time since I watched that one, but he was excellent.
What states rights had the Buchanan administration violated t so badly that secession was the only answer.
Your list consists of facilities located on realestate inside Southern boundaries. After secession, it was the view of the Southern government that the federal government no longer held interests there. It was not the desire of the South to inflict their will on the North and they had no desire to take anything possessed by the Union located north of the Mason-Dixon Line. They simply wanted to leave the Union.
They simply wanted to leave the Union.
Another lost cause myth.
Based on your replies, am I to assume that you will not read War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by Walter Brian Cisco? I believe you will find it a well documented, fascinating account of history that you probably won’t find without digging through old documents, newspaper articles and researching eyewitness accounts yourself.
I haven’t read it but I probably will...eventually. I have several other titles to get through first.
found here:
https://scodpub.wordpress.com/tag/graves/
Brown's last minutes
How many of those were in the North?
I believe the Crown regarded Boston Harbor as belonging to the Union in 1775 if that helps your case.
So what?
“So what?”
Some members of the church of Lincoln like to argue that the North was in imminent peril of invasion in 1861 but that roster of federal installations appears to solely ones in the South. The Union had as strong a claim on them as the Crown did for everything in the Colonies in 1775.
You say that as though it means something.
LMAO!
That is epic.
Sometimes, raving lunatics are nice enough to give us visual clues.
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