Posted on 06/19/2018 5:30:41 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Captain Raphael Semmes of CSS Alabama struck his colors to the USS Kearsarge. Captain John Winslow's Kearsarge had pounded the Alabama into a smoldering, sinking wreck in a one hour battle off the coast of Cherbourg France. As she sunk, about 70 of her crew were rescued by the Kearsarge and about 30 by other ships in the area. Alabama had lost about 40 men killed during the battle. Captain Semmes escaped aboard a British ship. During her career as a commerce raider, CSS Alabama had captured or destroyed 65 U.S. flagged ships, and captured about 2000 of their crews. Captain Semmes accomplished this without the loss of a single life, either on Alabama or any of the ships he seized.
It's just another form of propaganda.
Interesting comment. I'm having a fascinating discussion with Jeffersondem on just how the powers in Richmond didn't care about the law or the Constitution but just the raw exercise of unfettered power.
His status as a legitimate Brigadier General is suspect. He was never confirmed to that rank by the Confederate Senate.
I believe the rebel senate was on the run by then.
The issue of the Legitimacy of the Confederate state was determined 152 years ago. It is a closed case.
That is the case.
I’m not going to indulge your childish “they did it too!” argument. Bad behavior on the part of another doesn’t justify other people’s bad behavior.
Except the motive to lie about something is more powerful for the people who stole the money than those who lost it.
It wasn't debated, dissent was simply crushed with guns and cannon fodder. "Legitimacy" has nothing to do with it. It was an exercise in raw power.
The North simply attacked the South because they meant to impose their will in the other's lands.
One could argue it's the losers who have more of a motive to lie in order to justify their futile cause and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that they are responsible for. But unlike you I'm not looking at this from the losers Confederate standpoint.
That's fine with me. I'll leave you be to indulge in your other childish arguments.
And they were successful at it.
And yet who is standing their holding the loot? Where is the money?
Without your participation, there aren’t any childish arguments in which I indulge.
The Washington/New York influence system is a corrupt cesspool that has been feeding off of the rest of the nation since the 1850s. Let us hope it is finally coming to it's Armageddon.
I may be your muse but the childish arguments are all yours.
To the victors go the spoils. To the initiator goes the blame. The South was responsible for all those deaths.
“Brown also learned much about Massachusetts’ mercantile elite; while he initially considered this knowledge a curse, it would prove to be a boon to his later activities in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry. The business community had reacted with hesitation when Brown asked them to change their highly profitable practice of selling low-quality wool en masse at low prices. Initially, Brown naively trusted them, but soon realized that they were determined to maintain their control of price-setting.”
"D@mn cotton farmers and their free labor!"
Like the Nazis, they lost the war.
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