The vast majority of people fighting for the CSA did NOT own slaves. That was merely the result of the “Victor writing the history books.”
He was eventually taken prisoner in the Spring of 1965?..............Some people fought longer than others.................
Ping!...................
WOW...thanks.
Thank you for posting this.
Trains used to get loaded up with hardtack, salt pork and coffee to get delivered to the soldiers on the front.
Dental hygiene was virtually non-existent.
Whiskey rations were officially two to four ounces per soldier per day. But quite often, entire canteens were liberally filled with whisky - in order to give soldiers a little "courage" to get themselves to the front lines.
I’ve seen this and enjoyed it, however, the man was obviously a white supremacist and a racist. We should dig him up and scatter his bones, like Lincoln Brigade did to nuns and priests during the Spanish civil war.
Except, those very same Southern states required a slave state be made and admitted as any free state would be admitted. This was even if that state did not want slaves.
No, it was for the choice of slaves that the South fought. Period. They claim it was “state's rights,” but the only one that mattered to them was slavery.
It’s amazing to hear him, voice so clear and firm and memory spectacular for his age.
Slavery was just a vehicle. States Rights was the real issue.
Telling them they could no longer own them was tantamount to telling them they had to do anything else... like, say.. Buy health care.
And he’s still more open for questions today than Joe Biden.
He we go with the stupid lost causers who polite this site.
It was for multiple reasons. The slavery issue was one and affected other reasons.
I live not far from Point Lookout - I’ve seen the semi recreated confederate
POW site there - it would have been a miserable experience - especially during bug and snake season.
Good stuff. States rights.
This persons account of the Civil War must be cancelled! clearly the wrong pronouns are being employed. This person kept making references to life experiences as a “boy” and the individual referred to his guardian/caregiver as a father!
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Slavery
1) Each declaration makes the defense of slavery a clear objective.
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Mississippi: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery— the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth… These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
Texas: The servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations.
South Carolina: Those [Union] States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.
Georgia: That reason was [the North’s] fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the States where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity.
2) Some states argue that slavery should be expanded.
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3) Abolitionism is attacked as a method of inciting violent uprisings.
4) Mississippi and Georgia point out that slavery accounts for a huge portion of the Southern economy.
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States’ Rights
1) The states argue that the Union is a compact, one that can be annulled if the states are not satisfied with what they receive in return from other states and/or from the federal government.
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2) The states argue that the North’s reluctance to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (mandating that fugitive slaves be returned to the South) means that the compact is no longer satisfactory.
Other Grievances
1) All of the states negatively mention Abraham Lincoln’s election and his suspected abolitionist leanings.
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