Posted on 05/25/2023 8:52:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Memorial Day emerged from America's most deadly and destructive war: the Civil War.
Agreed, social, political and moral divisions are wracking and weakening contemporary America. But no external or internal challenge quite compares to the Civil War -- at least not yet.
Measured by soldiers and civilians killed in combat and by war's derivative killers -- starvation, disease and exposure -- the Civil War has no rival.
Physical, economic and social destruction are more relative terms and comparing them in different historical eras is tricky.
The Union's best generals, Grant and Sherman, targeted Confederate economic productivity. They knew the South's ability to supply its armies prolonged the war. Sherman's vow to "make Georgia howl" expressed the strategy succinctly.
Blue and Gray armies burned farms and factories. The Confederate and border states (Kentucky, Missouri, even Maryland) suffered terrible devastation from both armies. This assertion is debatable, but I think it has merit. It took the Deep South 90 years (and the unifying effects of two world wars with international enemies) to overcome its economic backwardness, in comparison to the Yankee Northeast and Midwest.
Yet the social-political Civil War lingered... and lingered.
(Excerpt) Read more at strategypage.com ...
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Lincoln said the conflict would last longer than the cause of the conflict, no?
When America enters into CWII, it’ll not be between the states, but between urban and rural areas within each state.
Enters into? We are in it, NOW!,
That is right, sadly.
I’ll be at the war memorial as soon as I’m able to, to honor our vets and post on FB so that the vets around me get some of the honor they deserve.
If liberals obama their jeans over it, so be it.
Integration was a noble experiment. No one can deny that.
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