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"...now comes up the question of what we southern soldiers fought for...the south did not fight for the preservation or extension of slavery...and so what we struggle for and that was for states rights".


1 posted on 11/20/2022 5:35:37 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

And the particular states right that they fought for was the right to enslave people. We know this because they people who seceded told us this. And in their constitution they explicitly forbid states from banning slavery.


2 posted on 11/20/2022 5:44:15 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: Beowulf9

Agree
A great many of those young boys were dirt poor …….no doubt a lot of them not unlike the ‘Boston Tea folks’ who resented being told what to do and think.

Why else would they fight for slaves they never owned or would own.
I firmly believe it was ‘states rights’…..

Thank you for this piece of history, I look forward to watching/listening.
….


3 posted on 11/20/2022 5:44:21 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Beowulf9

Fascinating.


4 posted on 11/20/2022 5:48:03 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Beowulf9

Fascinating!


5 posted on 11/20/2022 5:58:40 AM PST by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: Beowulf9

bmp


6 posted on 11/20/2022 6:00:36 AM PST by gattaca (Either you will control your government, or government will control you. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Ping.

5.56mm


7 posted on 11/20/2022 6:03:45 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: Beowulf9

I have many ancestors and other relatives who fought in the ‘late unpleasantness’. As far as I can tell, all those who died died defending their homeland.


11 posted on 11/20/2022 6:29:14 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Beowulf9

Thanks for posting this, definitely worth ten minutes of your time.


12 posted on 11/20/2022 6:37:13 AM PST by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD (Ret))
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To: Beowulf9

Great Post- Thank You.
History does repeat itself.
Will America recover? It’s up to us :

2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.


14 posted on 11/20/2022 6:41:41 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Beowulf9
The man has a remarkable memory. I can't even remember what I had for dinner last night!
Thanks for posting ...
18 posted on 11/20/2022 7:40:54 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Beowulf9; rockrr; BroJoeK

Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?


19 posted on 11/20/2022 7:47:29 AM PST by x
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To: Beowulf9

Interesting dialect.


21 posted on 11/20/2022 9:34:14 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Beowulf9

To hell they didn’t fight to protect slavery.


27 posted on 11/20/2022 11:28:25 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Beowulf9

Reminds me of the opening of the movie Little Big Man, except that this is real.


28 posted on 11/20/2022 11:30:07 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Beowulf9

ping


29 posted on 11/20/2022 11:33:04 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Beowulf9

I spent time in a section of the Appalachians that seceded from the Confederacy immediately after the Confederacy was formed. Thy area was called Mayland (not Maryland).

There was no slavery in this area, and they didn’t want to defend such.

Both the North and the South ruthlessly attacked the people in this area. I’ve been to the caves (really rock formations) that the families hid in to avoid lynchings and mass murder.


54 posted on 11/22/2022 12:40:58 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Beowulf9

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89 posted on 11/28/2022 3:10:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Beowulf9

Bookmark


97 posted on 11/30/2022 8:12:34 AM PST by Lando Lincoln (But that's just me.)
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To: Beowulf9

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117 posted on 11/30/2022 11:31:30 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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