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.
face it, the war was "mr. linkum's" FAULT & the BLOOD of a MILLION Americans is indelibly on his hands.
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CERTAINLY he knew FAR more than you do about that subject.
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CERTAINLY he knew FAR more than you do about that subject.
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Ouch!
fwiw, IF you believe ANYTHING that "the nameless shunned one" ever said (on ANY subject), i PITY you.
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talk about "HAS NO LIFE"!
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but then, EVERYBODY here KNOWS that about YOU, FOOL.
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too bad dueling isn't legal huh?
a couple of years ago, a young lady tried to do TRIAL BY COMBAT (with SWORDS!) on her rapist.
i don't know exactly what happened in the end BUT at that time the Montgomery county DA stated that if the MD state government did NOT act quickly , that she might make him into a "shiskebob"! (the YL was reportedly a fencing/saber instructor!)
i CAN tell everyone that several ladies in my office said that they were "pulling for her to KILL him with her saber"!
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You are the original poster boy for the most fanatical neo-confederates on FR.
Considering the impossibility of his claims, if he did in fact make them, I would say he did not.
Me thinks that you're wound up too tight.
Forget the meds again?
Lee didn't have the luxury of time, resources or hindsight that Krick had when he compiled his numbers "using newspaper reports and other sources".
However, from the link you provided:
"The summation provided by Krick raises the total of Confederate dead to about four and a half thousand, and the wounded to roughly twelve and a half thousand, but, of course, this is an incomplete total.Unfortunately, some accounts adopt the total of approximately four and a half thousand rebel deaths and present them as killed in action, thereby suggesting that Confederate losses in killed exceeded Union losses in this category by roughly fifty per cent
.the fact that this figure allows for mortally wounded is apparently not understood, or ignored .This is a prime example of the most excellent statistical research being used improperly." (emphasis added)
#710 It's obvious, bonehead
#711 Your wife doesn't think so
#712 "It's my opinion that you are a numbnuts."
#720 [after being identified as a loudmouth chickensh** poser]... Look, if you want to debate history then post some facts, stats, even opinions are welcome if they are derived at honestly. But if all you want to do is name call and make ignorant accusations, then leave me out of your sophomoric postings and find someone else to trade your nonsensical, vituperation's with.
Lol!
Do you write for the liberal press, by any chance? If not, then you should consider a career change as you definitely have the knack of quoting out of context.
But's let's give it a try. From mac_truck attack:
too bad dueling isn't legal huh?
Ouch!
I've confronted my share of sheetheads
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Hmmmmm......interesting profile that your out of context quotes conjures up, eh.
BTW, do you remember an invitation from me to you sometime back on another thread to engage in 'personal debate'? That seemed to silence your courage through anonymity verbiage.
Me thinks that you're just a big, loud mouth puss.
(Feel free to quote me. Bwahahahaha.....)
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