Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
It's language like yours that perpetuates hate and discontent. You're saying that my great-great grandfather, who was killed in battle, was a criminal and deserved to die. Is it any wonder that Southerners despise damnyankees?
It's adults like you that perpetuates revisionist history on the youth of America cultivating a new generation of ignorance.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Unconstitutional?
Question: Why does each state in the Union have their own, separate constitution?
DECLARATION OF THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES WHICH INDUCE AND JUSTIFY THE SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE FEDERAL UNION.
The 19th century yankee army made war then the same way the islamo jihadists make war today; on women and children.
If they were committed during the peace, how can you call them 'war crimes'?
during which the Southern Gentlemen raped, murdered, tortured as they pleased.
So, your family was raped, murdered, tortured? Are you black and a descendant of former slaves?
Actually, that is my wife's family.
You don't think that the white slavers didn't travel among the poor whites expecting and demanding the same deference that they got to slaves?
My, you are naive.
My second wife is black, and her family is from Mississippi. Does that help your imagination?
I think I understand the implication you're trying to make, even though your grammar is horrible.
Many of the 'white slavers' were yankees.
And the wholesale lawlessness that you are suggesting was the order of the day in the South didn't occur until Reconstruction.
My, you are naive
Sounds like you've swallowed the Alex Haley Roots story hook, line and sinker.
My, you are gullible.
BTW, it ain't rape when they consent. Are you so naive that you believe that slave women had to be raped to have sex with white men?
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
since YOU are NOT a "person of color", you post was a KNOWING, intentional LIE, wasn't it????
free dixie,sw
Hmm. On one hand we've got you insisting that it's so. On the other hand, we've got transcriptions of the 1860 census telling us that Stand Watie owned 6 slaves. And if we make the not-so-great leap of thinking that "Kand Watie" in the transcription is our buddy Stand, that adds another 11 slaves to his total.
Who to believe?
Watie always comes up with these mysterious PMs from people who all seem to say the same thing.
Spoken like a true kkklansman.
Well that's a silly question. If the confederate army had segregated blacks out of their units then who would do the cooking and the washing and take care of the livestock?
It's interesting to note that when the confederate congress finally got around to allowing blacks to be enlisted and conscripted into combat roles in March of 1865 the few units they managed to raise were segregated into all black outfits. What changed?
but then, "mac: we KNOW you would defend the DYs "to the death", even if it was proven that they murdered YOUR family, instead of 92 members of my family.
it's called "eyes closed tightly shut" against the TRUTH & being a "useful idiot"!
free dixie,sw
at the BEGINNING of the WBTS, there were THREE "all black" CSA units (these were STATE MILITIA UNITS. two of the units had GRANDSONS of men, who fought in the War of 1812 with Andrew Jackson.), with BLACK, elected, officers. (at least five sets of OFFICER's SERVICE RECORDS still exist. the others have "conveniently disappeared" from the Archives.
by 1862, MOST large CSA units were DESEGREGATED in the CSA forces, with essentially EVERY job open to ALL, regardless of skin color.
otoh, in the union military, Blacks served in MOSTLY "unskilled labor" jobs ( the BRAVE 54th MASS IN BDE being the ONLY exception i can think of, offhand.), FAR from direct combat, under white officers & at HALF pay, because the union high command DEVALUED their service and did NOT trust the Black soldiers to "stand & fight".
free dixie,sw
I know it would be the only way that you could get any.
Black soldiers fought in the battle of the crater, In Kansas, and in several important fights in South Carolina.
Rather a lot for one brigade. Boy, those guys must have been all over the map.
Your comments are so far off, they are ridiculous. By the end of the war 1/3rd of the Union army was black units. Or if you prefer, by the end of the war, the Union black units outnumbered the entire so called "Confederate Army".
Fought better, too!
I am scrupulous in pursuit of the truth. If I make a mistake, I admit it, and accept correction gladly.
I have made mistakes, for example above when I momentarily confused the 620,000 deaths statistic with the 634,000 Union Casualty statistic. Note my quick acceptance of my error, and my thanks to the poster who notified the board and me of the error.
Do you consider your wife part of your family? If not, it is a exceedingly strange concept of family you have. That may explain some of your issues with persistant anger.
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