There was a thread about this a few weeks back. You might want to look for it. The link is awesome, a voice from the past.
Makes him about old enough to vote in Detroit, where hundreds of civil war veterans actually “voted” in 2020 for Dementia Joe.
Chuckle.
There’s an old TV show from the ‘50s, I think it’s either “What’s My Line” or “I’ve Got a Secret,” one of those, and the guest is a man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination when he was a child. There’s also an episode of Groucho Marx’s show from the ‘50s and one of his guests remembered the Civil War.
Does he talk about voting for Joe Biden?
The ordinary soldier fights for his fellows, his home, and his country, in that order, usually.
The States had priority for a great many in that period, especially in the South.
Man Born in 1846 Talks About the 1860s and Fighting in the Civil War - Restored Audio
07/18/2022 1:02:13 PM PDT · by Dr. Franklin · 285 replies
The Library of Congress ^ | Jul 10, 2022 | Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079343/posts
Fighting for states’ rights. Sound familiar?
No way this is real.
Yes, the ordinary men did not fight against t he abolition of slavery, they fought 8instead for the right of the states to determine their own socio economic path in freedom.
This is what I learned in history class back in the 1960s at University. The issue of slavery and its abolition was a footnote to the overall struggle. With the civil rigts movement of the 1960s, the abolition of slavery was redefined to be the major issue of the Civil War. In fact it was not, it was regarded as a symptom of the struggle of the South to be free to determine the future of their own agrarian based economy and related social institutions , not just the institution of slavery to the exclusion of the others.To say that the Civil war was about the abolition of slavery is to over simplify the issues of the Civil War, and leads to a failure of understanding of the Civil war itself.The end result is a miasma of social guilt for “slavery,” and Critical Race Theory as a reaction to this false understanding of history.
One of the most interesting things I researched for my book, Jesus Wept, an American Story, was the transcripts of freed slaves done in the 30s. What an eye opener. They referred to the civil war as the war of northern aggression.