Posted on 05/10/2010 3:17:06 PM PDT by Davy Buck
LOL!, your 'jock'? Come on man, my Chihuahua can drag the whole part of that so - called southern manhood.
And frankly, I really can't blame you'll, my research shows, even after the war was over, the Yankee Army continued it's destruction of assets.
(Now my Chihuahua wants some lap time .....) And seriously, I was considering moving to NC ... Now? no way Jose!
You are right —but as a colonel in the Virginia regiment, serving the British army, he was painted by Charles Wilson Peale in a blue and RED uniform—do you recall that painting? That is the one I am thinking of—thanks for the correction. PS Some historian has written a whole book on Washington’s feelings of rejection by the British military hierarchy as one of the reasons for his agreeing to be a general for the American Army.
If you win, you’re a patriot. If you lose, you’re a traitor.
On the Civil War, my head is with the North. Despite a credible argument as to a right to secede, the South was utterly foolish to do so. The South was outmatched and unlikely to win.
Despite other issues, slavery was the driving cause of the Civil War because it made the South a distinct society with interests that could not be easily harmonized with those of the North. The South would have been better served to use its influence within the federal system to negotiate gradual emancipation.
Still, my heart is with the South. I have read and taken to heart much of the South's history and literature, from Poe and Lanier to the Agrarians, to the New Critics, Richard Weaver, Robert Penn Warren, and Flannery O'Connor.
The South's sense of tragedy and of manners and honor give it a depth that eludes the North. Even on race, today's South often does better than the North, and Southerners make up a disproportionately large slice of the US military.
Facts ARE indeed facts. The FACT that the victors write history to their benefit. The FACT that Sherman burned his way through Georgia to terrorize the civilians. The FACT that the Confederacy is still being punished by Yankee laws.
We are still two nations, under one flag. Perhaps, if the Conferacy had prevailed, the damage LIBs have done to America would have hurt fewer people. And slavery would have been eliminated anyway. Mechanization would have forced it. Lincoln only freed slaves in the Confederacy.
Maybe p.o'd about Andersonville?
But the comment about the camp commander being hung on the word of a deserter?
That's funny!
" The star prosecution witness was a man named Felix de la Baume. De la Baume testified about his captivity at Andersonville, and that he personally saw Wirz shoot men. After giving his testimony, and before the trial was completed, De la Baume was given a written commendation for his "zealous testimony" signed by all of the commission members. He was also rewarded with a government clerk's job in the Department of the Interior. After the trial had ended De la Baume was identified by veterans of the 7th New York Regiment as a deserter from their regiment. They went to the Secretary of the Interior and had De la Baume fired, at which time he admitted that he had committed perjury in the Wirz trial."
Not denying the horrors at Andersonville, Camp Douglas, Belle Isle, or Point Lookout. The tragedy is these were Americans all, both captive and captor.
But, series - while the South may have had the right to secede and/or even a duty to do so, the horror of Andersonville and other Confederate POW camp stains forever what they were trying to do. Just my 2 cents.
I remember at a e&e course, back in the day, we were told "never get captured, you'll be abused and no one will ever give sh*t".
As I look at the booming Japanese economy, how the war criminals were not hung etc, I know I was being told the truth that day back in 1970
He didn't lead a war against the USA!
He led an army defending the Confederacy from the US invasion.
You really don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. Even IF Easley was governor and even IF he could be re-elected, neither which is true, it has nothing to do with the comments you made. Obfuscation is a libtard tactic...you must do better here to be relevant.
Great! You’re not good enough, smart enough, or informed enough to be a North Carolinian.
You forgot Stonewall Jackson.
Well there was that whole slavery thing...
How was the federal government overreaching? Just curious.
And considering the last 5 Southern presidents we've had I'd say that Dixie has gotten its revenge and then some.
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Now they are basically of the same Scot-Irish ancestry as me so I figured NC has a program to ‘relocate them from the state - so to speak - So with a few friends we called the governors office to confirm that such a relocation program was in effect.
The little gal who answered the phone finally stopped laughing after I described the local tarheels, and replied “Yes, such folks would want to leave this state - we don't put up with that kind here”
But then the duke LaCrosse thing came up and I lost interest :^(
>>And considering the last 5 Southern presidents we’ve had I’d say that Dixie has gotten its revenge and then some.<<
The South disowned them the day they first stomped on the Constitution. And the Yankees are getting even with the Kenyan.
I think Kenya is south of the Mason-Dixon...lol
let's don't be a hypocrite
Maybe I forgot to congratulate you guys on being elected to represent the South, but you sure as heck weren't picked to run the whole White race.
I would have remembered that and maybe even gotten a ballot to fill out.
I'm always up to learning a little history, but endlessly running through the same arguments over and over again isn't very appealing.
When it leaves historical facts behind for Yankee bashing and personal attacks, that's all the more reason to stay away.
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