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The War Is Over - So Why The Bitterness?
Old Virginia Blog ^ | 10 April 2011 | Richard G. Williams, Jr.

Posted on 04/11/2011 7:51:03 AM PDT by Davy Buck

"The fact that it is acceptable to put a Confederate flag on a car *bumper and to portray Confederates as brave and gallant defenders of states’ rights rather than as traitors and defenders of slavery is a testament to 150 years of history written by the losers." - Ohio State Professer Steven Conn in a recent piece at History News Network (No, I'll not difnigy his bitterness by providing a link)

This sounds like sour grapes to me. Were it not for the "losers" . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; southern
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To: CodeToad
Not my job to educate you.

Just your job to make things up as you go along. Thanks for clearing that up for us. Please continue.

41 posted on 04/11/2011 9:08:42 AM PDT by K-Stater
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To: central_va
"...out of Irish conscripts..."

Something I have trouble understanding is why so many Irish fought for the North. After escaping the tyranny of the English, you'd think they'd flock to the southern banner.

My best guess is this; the Irish faced massive discrimination and hatred from the native yankess, and were desperate to prove their worth and mettle to their adopted nation.

My own ancestor, Patrick Slain, was in the Union Cavalry. I just hope he never killed a southernor.

42 posted on 04/11/2011 9:09:28 AM PDT by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: LS
Funny, the Crown recognized the colonies as sovereigns but somehow that was destoyed by the USC?

"A republic if you can keep it"

B. Franklin

43 posted on 04/11/2011 9:12:05 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jonascord
The question that STILL has not been answered is whether secession by the individual states is illegal or just impractical. Given the current federal dictatorship, the question recurs...

Secession is clearly legal. The issue is whether the tyrant in our White House will respect the law and the Constitution or just impose his will on free people. If we are unable to reverse the evil of these past few years and TX or a few other states choose to leave, I'll go with them. Socialism is not acceptable, and ObamaCare will be dismantled along with the oversized federal government or Atlas will shrug.

44 posted on 04/11/2011 9:15:21 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: central_va

But the colonists themselves never saw themselves as sovereigns. They didn’t even think they had the “rights of Englishmen.” (”If this be treason, let us make the most of it”).


45 posted on 04/11/2011 9:16:01 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Davy Buck

Read up on Shermans’s March, The Reconstruction and Carpet baggers and you will understand how the bitterness lingers.


46 posted on 04/11/2011 9:19:11 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: LS

Yes, the rebels of 1776 are recorded as saying those quotes and acknowledging their status as “traitors” to King George and England. I found it interesting you would characterize Lincoln as second-best to an acknowledged traitor. It just seems that pejorative language fails to take context into account.

BTW, I am working through some of your books. I’m going to have to skip ahead to the Civil War section so I can better understand your point of view in this matter.


47 posted on 04/11/2011 9:20:22 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Moose4
"The bitterness is more recent. There wasn’t nearly as much bitterness in the immediate aftermath of the War."

You're right. Union and Confederate vets held national reunion encampments together until the vets were so old they couldn't make the journey anymore. I don't remember any outcries against the CSA during the commemoration years for the 100th anniversary of the war. I think the demonization escalated in the late 60's with Dr. King's assassination, and in the early 70's, helped by big-mouths like Sharpton and Jackson, the growth of black power, the organization of the Black Panthers, and the increased militancy of the Nation of Islam. I also believe that the radical left, the anti-war crowd, and others helped to create the intolerant atmosphere that has been part and parcel of this country since that time.

48 posted on 04/11/2011 9:24:44 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


49 posted on 04/11/2011 9:26:31 AM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Pollster1
Secession is clearly legal.

Secession is neither legal or illegal. The USC is totally silent(Still after all these years and a Civil War) on the subject. The right to leave the Union is not something can or should be codified, it is unspoken natural right.

IMO each state should have to vote EVERY YEAR to stay in the Union, the default would be sovereignty.

50 posted on 04/11/2011 9:26:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Celtic Cross
"The Lincoln Administration require us to raise three regiments; tell him we have done so."

Men of the Valley

51 posted on 04/11/2011 9:29:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: T-Bird45

Good. thanks for reading these.


52 posted on 04/11/2011 9:30:57 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Davy Buck

The liberals are rubbing their hands over this. I’m not a Northerner or Southerner. Believe my ancestors weren’t yet run out of their home countries by then. Love the South, but that slavery thing was kind of a problem. Love the North, but I believe they were fighting more to keep wages from falling than they were fighting to free the blacks. Let the gallant Soldiers from both sides rest in peace. Our fight today is with the liberals.


53 posted on 04/11/2011 9:48:46 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: central_va

The 10th Amendment makes that natural right a legal right. We just need the power to protect that right in the fact of opposition from the thug in our White House.


54 posted on 04/11/2011 10:03:34 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: K-Stater; LS; Notary Sojac; Peter from Rutland

fellas, before adding any more ‘lincoln was great’, ‘the war was about slavery’, etc. nonsense, i’ll throw ya all a bone:

America’s Caesar by Greg Loren Durand.

Volume 1 is Lincoln. Volume 2 is Reconstruction to present day. Buy both volumes and read (best $30 you’ll ever spend).

It’s a big effort (1000+ pages) but worth it, especially since half the book is original texts such as congressional speeches, presidential letters, etc. It was tough to get through some parts for a PA boy like myself, but I doubt I’ve learned more from a single text before.

If nothing else, you won’t waste any more time asking for quotes and parading your ignorance on the FR boards.


55 posted on 04/11/2011 10:07:11 AM PDT by phi11yguy19
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To: phi11yguy19
If nothing else, you won’t waste any more time asking for quotes and parading your ignorance on the FR boards.

I suspect we'll still have to ask about the non-existent quotes when people post about them.

56 posted on 04/11/2011 10:14:30 AM PDT by K-Stater
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To: phi11yguy19

Before insulting people you may want to actually post exactly what you think the war was about. Maybe offer an opinion or two. I never said anything about Lincoln.

Anyone historian worth his salt knows exactly what the war was about, even Shelby Foote, a southerner. States rights? Bullshit. There was only ONE states right at issue. Slavery. Period. End of story.


57 posted on 04/11/2011 10:17:48 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: K-Stater
I suspect we'll still have to ask about the non-existent quotes when people post about them.

That is a non-sequitur....

58 posted on 04/11/2011 10:18:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Pollster1
The problem Obama has is that, unlike 1861, when the North had twice the population, 5 times the rail service and 99% of the manufacturing capability, he's only able to rally 19% of the population, none of his recruits know how to pick up a rifle, and spending the last thirty years assuming that all conservatives are mouth breathing idiots, while 99% of which are veterans, was probably somewhat foolish.

Consider that WE KNOW how to make IEDs, Obama's police army has spent years pissing everyone off, overweight, lazy federal workers, and union school teachers make poor troops...

Walter Williams' list of Obama voters does not create concern. Poofters, college professors, college educated women, somehow, that's not a military friendly manpower pool. He's got gang-bangers, but I've yet to see one win a gunfight with anyone who knows how to shoot or outside of a range of 15 feet...

I'm going to go with "CW2 is going to be short, and bloody to a degree that staggers. No prisoners."

59 posted on 04/11/2011 10:27:39 AM PDT by jonascord (The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
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To: central_va
That is a non-sequitur....

If so then by all means feel free to help CodeToad out with that Lincoln quote he claims exists. I'm sure he won't mind.

60 posted on 04/11/2011 10:29:32 AM PDT by K-Stater
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