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1864: Four Confederate soldiers, under Burbridge’s Order 59
ExecutedToday.com ^ | November 5, 2014 | Headsman

Posted on 11/04/2022 9:58:12 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

The Martyrs Monument of Midway, Ky., honors four Confederates publicly executed by the Union one hundred fifty years ago today.

A brutally contested frontier zone between North and South, Kentucky at this point was under martial law, governed by General Stephen Burbridge — but nearly anarchic on the ground in some areas.

In an effort to quell the activities of Confederate guerrillas-slash-outlaws, Burbridge issued a still-notorious directive called Order 59: Citing the “rapid increase in this district of lawless bands of armed men,” the order threatened to expel Southern sympathizers and seize their property. Moreover, it warned: “Whenever an unarmed Union citizen is murdered, four guerrillas will be selected from the prison and publicly shot to death at the most convenient place near the scene of the outrages.”...

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To: CheshireTheCat

The only contribution I have is being a daughter of the South…….

……and my dad’s grandparents have long memories…..and their grandparents in turn had long memories…..and stories were told…..
….truth?…..embellished?…..fog of war?

It’s like someone mentioned recently…….we’re only 77 years past the 2nd World War
In my Daddy’s time it was a little over 50 years from the The War of Northern Aggression :)
Memories linger…..so do grudges

Entertainment was ‘sitting on the porch’
I’m a displaced Tennessean….
I took for granted all the cannons……cemeteries …….scattered all around….( cannons in the back yard when we lived on Missionary Ridge……
….my dad often talked about Billygoat Hill, running with blood…..
…we didn’t live far from Chickamauga Battlefield or Lookout Mountain
This was ingrained even when I wasn’t paying attention.
I took it for granted.
But this was my heritage and I’m proud of it.


21 posted on 11/05/2022 5:44:58 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Phoenix8
Bashir: Out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
Garak: My dear doctor, they all were true.
Bashir:Even the lies?
Garak: Especially the lies
22 posted on 11/05/2022 6:00:37 AM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Kartographer

The Union soldiers were the good guys?

Could have fooled me. Then again, IMO, Lincoln, was a vapid POS who should have had his goon head blown apart 5 years earlier.

We wouldn’t have the EPA, fed.gov gun laws and 2 gallon per flush toilets.


23 posted on 11/05/2022 6:33:51 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: A strike

“....a similar thing in occupied Czechoslovakia ? but a whole town.”

The town was Lidice. In retribution for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, it was randomly selected and destroyed with residents murdered or deported to concentration camps. And by destroyed, as near as possible, it was leveled to the degree of never having existed.


24 posted on 11/05/2022 8:25:42 AM PDT by Huaynero
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To: AAABEST

I can’t totally agree with your assessment but I certainly sympathize.

The very fact they deigned call themselves “Union” (LOL) even if they were just Federals points to the real reason for the war. Not slave-lovers, but broken-hearted at the thought of breaking up.

Such “unions” are not worth keeping. If your husband wants you to stay with him at the point of a gun, that’s not a good relationship.


25 posted on 11/05/2022 8:33:34 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
B-29 crews shot down during the March ‘45 Tokyo fire raids were beheaded by the Japs. They were Prisoners of War, and should have been treated as such. The Japs on the other hand, blamed these crews for the 100,000+ Jap civilian deaths during the inaugural raid of March 9th. Because civilian areas were intentionally targeted to burn the city out, the crews were
deemed “criminals” and summarily executed.
My Dad was a B-29 pilot and flew these raids. I'm blessed every day that he returned to Saipan...Blessed.
26 posted on 11/05/2022 8:39:24 AM PDT by AFret. (.)
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To: dbehsman

> Your friend was a war criminal. <

I will not argue against that.


27 posted on 11/05/2022 9:25:28 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: AAABEST

All that junk that happened between the native peoples and the US Cavalry after CW was perpetrated by soldiers in Union Blue. The Greys along with the entire south were disarmed during Reconstruction.


28 posted on 11/06/2022 4:42:42 AM PST by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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