Perfectly stated.
Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
It appears that the Northern invasion of the South is complete -- at least it is on a patch of land known as Delta Plantation in Jasper County.
There, a diehard rebel named Henry E. Ingram Jr. made his last stand against the onslaught of Yankees, only to be thwarted by a man from Long Island, N.Y., and now -- gasp -- a French Canadian.
Ingram promised to keep Yankees out of Delta Plantation in Jasper County when he bought 1,700 acres there in 1998. His resolve to keep them out still is strong, but the covenants he put on the land don't seem to have any teeth.
Those covenants did, however, scare Canadian-raised Bluffton resident Louise Legare a bit as she was close to signing a contract to buy a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the land from Bluffton Home Builders.
The list of rules she got from the builders was missing the first pages, so she went to the Jasper County Courthouse to get the missing ones. There, she found the covenants, or rules, that Ingram demanded of buyers:
1. They could not be Yankees.
2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).
3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman.
Clearly, Ingram doesn't like Northern folk.
Now, however, Legare and Bluffton Home Builders are working with Ingram's son, Ashley Ingram, to remove the covenants. The former Delta Plantation is on both sides of U.S. 17, just north of the Georgia state line.
"When (Legare) brought it to us, we all kind of had a good laugh," said Jim Hobbs, a partner in the home-building firm.
In fact, Legare is buying the land and home from Bill Cook, another partner in the company, who happens to be a native of Long Island, N.Y. No one at Bluffton Home Builders had seen the covenants before Legare found the missing pages, and no one has ever tried to enforce them, Hobbs said.
If Henry Ingram had his way, he still would keep Yankees off of the 1,700 acres he once owned. His holdings on the plantation have dwindled to 10 acres.
Ingram, now a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, said his son and attorney, who are both local, should be looking out for his anti-northerner wishes now.
"Yankees destroy everything they have up North, then they come down here," Ingram said. "When they destroy everything (in the South), where are they going to move next? Another country?"
Legare, who grew up north of Montreal, figures her far-northern upbringing must be especially abhorrent to Ingram.
"I must be more of a Yankee," she said. "I'm the person he really doesn't want to live there."
Amazingly, Legare is a much better choice to own Southern land than a New Yorker, according to Ingram.
"French people are much better and more desirable than a Yankee," said Ingram, who once owned video-poker casinos in Jasper County. "They don't stick their noses in other people's business."
The same feature drew Legare and Ingram to the land -- nature. Ingram said he's seen Carolina panthers, bald eagles and fox squirrels on the land. It is that quiet beauty Legare is after.
"I was raised in a very nature-like environment," Legare said. "I think the nature is beautiful in South Carolina."
Ingram, who says he is leaving Texas for Costa Rica soon, cites the boorish manners of Yankees as one of his prime dislikes for them.
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."
Contact Jim Faber at 706-8137 or jfaber@islandpacket.com. To comment on this story, please go to islandpacket.com.
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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