[TheNext]

The final result of the Aggressive North’s onerous, inhumane taxes on the South, was the death of many, and Sherman’s march to the sea of great destruction.

How are those taxes working out for you?

[SavannahWonderer]

Headed home to Savannah now for Christmas. I love to tell the story of Savannah being spared and presented as a Christmas gift. Though it was really a war prize and a gold mine of supplies to fund more raping and pillaging, it all the same was spared and remains the most beautiful city in America.

[zaxtres]

And yet is was Lincoln’s use of the railroad as a spy transportation network that aided in the North winning the war. The railroad was not as utilized in the south as it was in the North. And when the South caught on much later in the war, the damage to the South had been done and it was too late to recover from. The North’s ultimate weapon against the South and greatly underestimated to this day was at the time the railroad. It is why the North destroyed railroad tracks in the South and guarded them in the North. This is one of the few unsung heros of the Civil War that many people do not know about.

Because I mention railroads as being an unsung hero, I am not for them as mass transit. Nor am I promulgating this to have more railway mass transit. This is just a not so well known fact about the Civil War. Usually, only the die-hard Civil War buffs typically know about this.

[Vermont Lt]

Losing sucks.

That’s why we love winning.

[yldstrk]

Hope Sherman is burning in hell

[Who is John Galt?]

Most folks have been taught that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Few are aware that he authored a second declaration, fifty years later, for the State of Virginia. In that later declaratioon, he noted:

Whilst the General Assembly thus declares the rights retained by the States, rights which they have never yielded, and which this State will never voluntarily yield, they do not mean to raise the banner of disaffection, or of separation from their sister States, co-parties with themselves to this [constitutional] compact. They know and value too highly the blessings of their Union as to foreign nations and questions arising among themselves, to consider every infraction as to be met by actual resistance. They respect too affectionately the opinions of those possessing the same rights under the same instrument, to make every difference of construction a ground of immediate rupture. They would, indeed, consider such a rupture as among the greatest calamities which could befall them; but not the greatest. There is yet one greater, submission to a [federal] government of unlimited powers...

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration and Protest, on the Principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and on the Violations of Them, 1825
( https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jeffdec1.asp )

Mr. Jefferson clearly considered secession to be a right retained by the States. That may be worth remembering today, as Americans are increasingly expected to submit, without recourse, to a federal government of essentially unlimited powers...

[Kickass Conservative]

I find it interesting discussing the Civil War when half the current Population of this Country is trying to ignite a another Civil War.

We can’t even agree on how the first one started or who was to blame with the benefit of over 150 Years of hindsight.

[Guenevere]

He brought the South to her knees......
.....killed and pillaged and burned......starved the people, destroyed the crops
...burned them out of their homes

A horrible man!.....

[nutmeg]

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