Perfectly stated.
Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
are you REALLY that DUMB?? OR, are you just being a LITTLE TROLL???
could it be that you are BOTH a TROLL AND terminally IGNORANT, too??? (inquiring minds want to know.)
free dixie,sw
Now, what's the scoop on old Kirk's next Klan gathering? Don't worry I won't tell Kirk anything you stated.
It is just hard to post data from my "Grant's Memoirs" in this tiny box.
Uh, new voices in your head do not count as converts to your cause. Let 'em post on these threads and maybe we'll believe they exist. Otherwise, they get filed next to the Galveston U-boat.
But, just to make you happy...
Shut up.
Then by all means post it again and really, really make me look dumb. Show us your evidence that there were enough free black males of military age to make up the 100,000 free black males in confederate ranks that you claimed. Do it now.
It is a ridiculous explanation. Train them in segregated units so they can be sent to integrated units later? At a time and place where basic training camps did not exist? How gullible do you think we are?
VERY! You believed all the lies Lincoln & the Industrial Faction Senators/Abolitionists fed you!
It was the south that chose war, by firing on US soldiers performing their duty.
This from the man who has swallowed every southron myth no matter how far fetched.
Got any names? references? companies? G-d forbid, "primary sources" or are they on that U boat?
If you check your map, the "faraway central government" was located between Maryland and Virginia. Hardly far away!
For the battle of Gettysburg, the southern reports were systematically low by about 50%. My interpretation is that Lee falsified the reports so the war would continue.
http://gburginfo.brinkster.net/Casualties.htm
For the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the return of casualties is far more problematic. The official casualty return compiled by Lee’s medical director in late July 1863 was manifestly incomplete: a total of 20,451, comprising 2,592 killed in action, 12,709 wounded and 5,150 missing. It was apparent at the time that this was not a complete count: the trauma of defeat and retreat and the loss of many officers prevented a proper assessment: many units grossly under reported their losses, and in some cases the returns included none of the “missing”, and when the missing were counted, it was only too often the case that they were in reality either dead or wounded . In the absence of complete official returns, historians have attempted to estimate Confederate casualties at Gettysburg, using different methods of compilation. Prominent among these was Livermore, who, in his widely used essay NUMBERS AND LOSSES, proffered a total of 28,063 rebel casualties at Gettysburg, including 3,903 killed, 18,735 wounded and 5,425 unwounded prisoners. His method was simple but controversial…….the report of the US Provost Marshall gave a count of 5,425 unwounded and 6,802 wounded Confederate prisoners in Federal hands, these men being captured between July 1st and July 5th. Livermore then cites the report of the medical director of the Army of Northern Virginia, which admitted that only 776 wounded men were left behind. Extrapolating from this, Livermore concluded that this indicates that 6,026 Confederate wounded were not reported, and should be added to the 12,709 that were counted, thereby increasing the number of wounded to 18,735. Using the ratio of killed to wounded that pertained to the Federal army in the battle, which amounted to 4.6 wounded to every one killed in action, Livermore applies this to the extra 6,026 Confederate wounded, and comes up with an additional 1,311 killed, increasing the officially reported number of 2,592 killed in action to 3,903, a rise of over fifty per cent.
inquiring minds want to know (if you're a TROLL and/or STUPID).
you are, based on PMs tome,even an embarrassment to "the coven".
free dixie,sw
Professor H R Blackerby's book, BLACKS IN BLUE & GRAY, has a BIBLIOGRAPHY with a "laundry list" of his sources. (i have told you this at LEAST 2-3 times before!)
i do NOT have my own copy of the book, but it IS available from Interlibrary Loan. GO see for yourself, as i did.
Prof Blackerby states in his book (such that even the Minister of DAMNyankee Propaganda cannot misunderstand) that between 100,000 & 150,000 FREE Black men (and NOT a FEW Black women) were members of the CSA military forces.
free dixie,sw
Perfectly stated.
lincoln LIED, the cadets fired on Ft Sumter in retaliation & lincoln CHOSE WAR, rather than PEACE.
a MILLION people died for his EGOMANIA & FOLLY. it was "mr. linkum's war", from start to NEEDLESS,bloody, bitter end.
lincoln's WAR & lincoln's FAULT that a MILLION died! that is the BITTER (for ALL of us) truth.
free dixie,sw
be gone to DU.
BUT before you prance out the door, tell me something.====> don't you EVER get tired of FReepers believing you are:
a. an IDIOT/BIGOT,
b. the BUTT of NUMEROUS jokes and
c.a KNOWING LIAR???
free dixie,sw
If Blackerby said such a thing then Blackerby is nuts, because census data widely available shows that there were fewer than 25,000 free black males of military age in the entire south. So I'll ask again, did every single one enlist 4 to 6 times.
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