More than ever it is apparent that the Olympics are scam designed to create great profits for the elites and to screw the common man.
The history of Arlington? You mean the part where they stole a man’s land and filled with dead soldiers as a slap in his face?
The War of Northern Aggression has a lot of abhorrent history, perpetrated by both sides, but really mostly the north.
s’why we still eat black-eyed-peas at New Years.
You mean The War of Southern Treason?
Most countries would have gone medieval on Lee and Jeff Davis’ ass, but my Northern ancestors gave you Southern snowflakes a break. Of course if Johnny Reb hadn’t lost the war they started, I guess Northern aggression wouldn’t have mattered.
The economic aspect of that war was capitalism versus an agrarian society.
The political aspect of that war was union versus fragmentation.
“The history of Arlington? You mean the part where they stole a man’s land and filled with dead soldiers as a slap in his face?”
...Interestingly the Lee family eventually won their lawsuit against the government. From Smithonian.com Nov 2009:
Asserting ownership of the property, Lee asked the Circuit Court of Alexandria, Virginia, to evict all trespassers occupying it as a result of the 1864 auction. As soon as U.S. Attorney General Charles Devens heard about the suit, he asked that the case be shifted to federal court, where he felt the government would get a fairer hearing. In July 1877, the matter landed in the lap of Judge Robert W. Hughes of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Hughes, a lawyer and newspaper editor, had been appointed to the bench by President Grant.
After months of legal maneuvering and arguments, Hughes ordered a jury trial. Custis Lee’s team of lawyers was headed by Francis L. Smith, the Alexandrian who had strategized with Lee’s father years before. Their argument turned upon the legality of the 1864 tax sale. After a six-day trial, a jury found for Lee on January 30, 1879: by requiring the “insurrectionary tax” to be paid in person, the government had deprived Custis Lee of his property without due process of law. “The impolicy of such a provision of law is as obvious to me as its unconstitutionality,” Hughes wrote. “Its evil would be liable to fall not only upon disloyal but upon the most loyal citizens. A severe illness lasting only ninety or a hundred days would subject the owner of land to the irreclaimable loss of its possession.”
The government appealed the verdict to the Supreme Court—which ruled for Lee again. On December 4, 1882, Associate Justice Samuel Freeman Miller, a Kentucky native appointed by President Lincoln, wrote for the 5 to 4 majority, holding that the 1864 tax sale had been unconstitutional and was therefore invalid.
The Lees had retaken Arlington.
This left few options for the federal government, which was now technically trespassing on private property. It could abandon an Army fort on the grounds, roust the residents of Freedmen’s Village, disinter almost 20,000 graves and vacate the property. Or it could buy the estate from Custis Lee—if he was willing to sell it.
He was. Both sides agreed on a price of $150,000, the property’s fair market value. Congress quickly appropriated the funds. Lee signed papers conveying the title on March 31, 1883, which placed federal ownership of Arlington beyond dispute. The man who formally accepted title to the property for the government was none other than Robert Todd Lincoln, secretary of war and son of the president so often bedeviled by Custis Lee’s father. If the sons of such adversaries could bury past arguments, perhaps there was hope for national reunion.
I grew up in a little town not far from Shiloh. My parents
used to take me there starting when I was just a kid. -
My great, great grandfather was a Rebel soldier at Shiloh.
My grandmother asked him once, “Grandaddy, what was it like
at Shiloh?” He replied, “Izora, Shiloh was just awful,
horrible, the biggest mess I’ve ever seen in my life!”
Said he didn’t know for sure if he killed anybody or not;
but didn’t see how he could have possibly kept from it.
Was SUCH A MESS! - He DID NOT have slaves. Fought because
Tennessee was being INVADED! - Daddy used to say, “Lincoln
didn’t have to have that war. New inventions were bringing
about the elimination of slavery anyway soon. He simply
WANTED or NEEDED that war.”