Posted on 04/14/2010 5:54:59 AM PDT by central_va
It’s also the day (night) the Titanic sank.
Another one of your confederate heroes?
First time I’ve heard the word “massive” used to describe the few scarecrows that decided not to carry on as guerillas and surrendered that day. Weren’t there only 20,000 left ?
Hey, go ahead and have your Lincoln love feast. I even provided the thread. Tell me how great he was, I am waiting.
If I recall correctly, Grant was also to have been a target as he was to have been in the box with Lincoln at the play, but he backed out at the last minute.
I think that's already been done by authors and historians far more qualified to do so than I. But by all means tell us how Booth was really a patriot and his actions were a noble strike against the tyrant and all the rest of that Lost Cause crap.
Actually, the soldiers from NC ans SC wera allowed to leave the A of No. Va. That is why Petersburg fell.
Hey, I am on record as saying Booth’s act was stupid. The Goon would have for sure screwed up reconstruction and not been a martyr.
Grant was supposed to go, but backed out because Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Lincoln couldn't stand each other. I don't think he was a target of the Booth conspiracy but he certainly would have been a target of opportunity had he been there.
The other targets that night as I recall were Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. Seward was severely injured but the man who was supposed to take out Johnson chickened out.
I’m always amazed at people who want to refight the civil war 145 years after it ended. It’s history. It’s open to interpretation of motives but it’s still history.
You should study a little harder, history repeats itself.
I must have missed that part. By all means repeat it. It'll be interesting to watch you fake sincerity as you do it.
Lincoln is NOT short. Lincoln is TALL.
I was looking for a martyr love feast, why all the hate?
sometimes.
I believe the term you were looking for is 'desertion'. In any case, Bratton's Brigade was with Lee at the end and they were all South Carolinians. There were some North Carolina troops among the artillery as well.
Oh I know your motives. Let's ping Idabilly and cowboyway. They can sing Booth's praises with you.
I get it.
Incidentally, as you fly over Washington and look down at the memorials, the lincoln memorial is three times the size of the Jefferson memorial.
I guess the size of the positive memory is inversely proportional to the contribution to the Constitution Republic they served.
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