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America’s Next Civil War Will Be Worse Than Our Last
The American Spectator ^ | 07/26/18 | H. W. Crocker III

Posted on 07/26/2018 7:41:23 AM PDT by Enlightened1

In the summer of 1862, just weeks before the Battle of Sharpsburg (or Antietam) — the bloodiest single day of fighting in American history — Union Captain George Armstrong Custer attended the wedding of Confederate Captain John “Gimlet” Lea at Bassett Hall in Williamsburg, Virginia, as best man. The Union officer was dressed in blue, the Confederate officer in grey, and Custer being Custer spent the next two weeks flirting with the Southern belle cousin of the bride, even joining her in singing “Dixie.”

At one point she told him, “You ought to be in our army.”

“What would you give me if I resigned my commission in the Northern army and joined the Southern?”

“You are not in earnest, are you?”

 

He wasn’t, of course. Custer was nothing if not loyal, and he believed that he was bound to the Union by the oath he had sworn at West Point, whatever his affection for Southern officers and their ladies.

Such gallantry seems unthinkable today, when members of the Trump administration are hounded from restaurants and theatres, and Confederate officers like John Lea, if they are remembered at all, are considered precursors of the German National Socialists, and their once famous and respected commanders like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jeb Stuart have their statues toppled and banished from public squares, their names stripped from public schools, and their memories spat upon and disgraced.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: america; civilwar; cw2; left; tas; trump
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To: T. P. Pole

I recall the MLK riots in Washington. We could see smoke rising over the fires in the city from my suburban high school. A bunch of us decided to go downtown for a closer look, but were turned back by soldiers in jeeps posted at Chevy Chase Circle.

The brother of one of my classmates was in the National Guard and was shot in the boot by an arrow while patrolling on 14th Street. Go figure — those were interesting times.


101 posted on 07/26/2018 12:22:51 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: PUGACHEV

My idea: The Liberals lose the election, use deep state and FBI/CIA to take over and pull the president from the white house. Purged Congress and the Media support the new appointed President Elizabeth Warren as a “restored” Government. Some states do not follow this line (in the South and west) and form a newly restored Government in Texas. They elect Donald Trump Jr. President of the CSA (as a new yorker he will be seen as a unifying symbol) Then the war starts in earnest with fighting in California, Maryland, and Colorado. Canada will back the Union, Russia the CSA and this could spin into a general war. Loss of life 7 million.


102 posted on 07/26/2018 1:01:40 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: central_va
Buffet is in Omaha.

It is VERY blue. The odd electoral vote system in Nebraska is set up so the Omaha counties don't flip the state blue in federal elections.

That is my comment about “The rest of the state might strike the match!” For locals, Omaha is not considered “Nebraska”. Warren Buffet and his kind run the town, and while they are very nice people (met him a few times), they are not in any way conservative. There is a constant fight back home to limit the Omaha libs from making Nebraska the next Illinois. Well, that and getting a football team that is fun to cheer for.

And protecting infrastructure is hard to do when a issue 1,000 miles away means your natural gas goes down. Same with power. While the red states are in a much better situation than say, CA (we have to much severe weather to depend on just in time deliveries of food stuffs), the depth of supplies that is produced in one state is very small. The days of having a state or county being self sufficient in most things ended with the rail roads.

Unless you send the 1st Nebraska Calvary on an expedition to support and conquer all lands east of the Continental divide, things will be mess. And if we do that, we will give New York to Virginia.

103 posted on 07/26/2018 1:12:28 PM PDT by redgolum
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To: castlegreyskull; DiogenesLamp; Pelham; FLT-bird; rockrr; x; DoodleDawg; jmacusa; OIFVeteran; ...
from the article: "In the end, the war was fought over a single legal issue: whether the states that had freely ratified the Constitution to form the Union could freely leave the Union if they felt it no longer served their interests."

castlegreyskull: "The last one was really a failed war for independence.
I think traditionally, Civil Wars fight for control of the entire country."

DiogenesLamp: "This is correct. "

FLT-bird: "Correct."

Pelham: "+1"

I see our Lost Cause brigade has already arrived to reaffirm one of their biggest lies -- that it was all just for "independence".
No it wasn't, from the beginning it was a existential military assault on the United States.
In the war's first 12 months 52 larger battles were fought, 30 in Union states & territories.
Late in 1864 there were still battles fought in the Union states of Kansas & Missouri.

All told the Civil War's 384 battles were fought in 18 Union states & territories and, oh yeh, in 11 Confederate states.


104 posted on 07/26/2018 1:41:41 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: BroJoeK

That is still not the map I asked you for.


105 posted on 07/26/2018 1:45:51 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: "That is still not the map I asked you for"

But it's the one that matters, the rest is nonsense.

106 posted on 07/26/2018 1:49:09 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: BDParrish; dsrtsage
BDParrish: "In the north, people felt that the president had authority to raise troops to put down what amounted to another whiskey rebellion."

It wasn't just a rebellion, it was also an invasion of the Union.
See my post #104 above.

107 posted on 07/26/2018 1:50:04 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: BroJoeK
It doesn't matter to me. Where battles were fought is not relevant to WHY someone insisted on starting a war.
108 posted on 07/26/2018 1:53:25 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BroJoeK

The other thing that happened was south Carolina sent “representatives” to try and talk the other slave states into leaving the Union also. That is plan and simple treason in my book.


109 posted on 07/26/2018 1:53:47 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
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To: mikeus_maximus; Enlightened1
mideus maximus: " the problem with these “another civil war is coming” histrionics is that they fail to recognize there are no geographic boundaries between the opposing sides— they are interspersed.
If there is fighting, it won’t be war; it will be anarchy."

Bingo! Spot on.
Here are the sides:


110 posted on 07/26/2018 1:54:16 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: central_va; Wyrd bið ful aræd
central_va: "GA and NY are two great examples. "

No, potentially extreme examples.
In the vast majority of states sides could be more evenly matched.
Of course it's all fantasy, none of this will happen under current conditions.

111 posted on 07/26/2018 2:00:11 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: Ohioan

Bkmk


112 posted on 07/26/2018 2:03:25 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. #FreeTommy)
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To: bigred44; Enlightened1; DiogenesLamp; Pelham; FLT-bird; central_va; rockrr; x; DoodleDawg
bigred44: "The Republicans beat the Democrats in the last Civil War (1861 - 1865)."

No, no you have it all wrong.
It was those evil Union Democrats lead by their devil Ape Lincoln who defeated the freedom loving Republican Confederates and forced them back into slavery.

You don't believe me?
Then ask DiogenesLamp, Pelham, FLY-bird or central_va.
They'll tell you the real "truth" of it.

113 posted on 07/26/2018 2:06:39 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: The Great RJ
The Great RJ: "Many prominent leftist politicians, FBI agents and more than a few left wing journalists will be sumarrly executed or spend years in desolate prison camps."

Total fantasy, at least under current conditions.

114 posted on 07/26/2018 2:09:48 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: ExTxMarine

Yeah I would not expect any other countries to get involved, if they did they would most likely support the lefties the way the world is now. I just don’t see it being any support beyond verbal cheering, maybe supplies. The thing is to me most lefties in the world (not just ours) talk a good talk about helping people but when it comes time for them to actually do something, not usually. They are more likely to fund raise to help then pocket the money.

I don’t see how the left could get organized militarily enough to do Sherman to the Sea fighting. The left is made up of so many groups with different agendas and they are fighting with each other now. If they try to go Sherman to the Sea I would bet conservatives would step up the game pretty quickly and all bets would be off at that point. I don’t see conservatives playing nice if people are being slaughtered.


115 posted on 07/26/2018 2:14:38 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: DiogenesLamp; FreeAtlanta
DiogenesLamp: "I don't perceive there to be any immediate danger.
In fact, i'm optimistic that some things are on the mend."

So am I.
Ask me again on November 7, 2018. ;-)

116 posted on 07/26/2018 2:15:16 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: BDParrish

There is such a thing as a tipping point, a line not to be crossed. It has always been that with every war.


117 posted on 07/26/2018 2:17:24 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: fireman15

I would bet money the illegals and most of those of illegal parents that were only born here, not feeling like Americans- would flee out of here like their hair was on fire. They would not be here if they were fighters, those here are those that fled their own country when things got tough.


118 posted on 07/26/2018 2:21:46 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: cld51860; DiogenesLamp; x; rockrr
cld51860: "I wonder if anyone was rolling their eyes in 1860."

The general attitude among Northern Republicans in 1860 was: we've heard Southerners crying wolf ("secession") for many years.
Time to call their bluff.

119 posted on 07/26/2018 2:22:16 PM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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To: Ransomed

I have spent some time talking to people who do not vote, never heard any reason other than those people are convinced things are already past the point of their vote mattering. Most have felt that way for many, many years. Very jaded, does not mean they would sit out any sort of unrest.


120 posted on 07/26/2018 2:29:58 PM PDT by Tammy8
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