Posted on 12/27/2005 1:58:49 AM PST by Crackingham
The Atlanta History Center has obtained Civil War field orders handwritten by Union General William T. Sherman. The history center got the field orders in a deal that was clinched with the offer of a bundle of Confederate currency that was donated to the center. Of the documents, 50 are field orders written by Sherman and two are orders written by his aides. They join another 12 orders the Atlanta History Center already had.
"Sherman surrendered," said history center president Jim Bruns, who likes the idea of Sherman's orders returning to the city the general ordered burned down.
The orders are so valuable because they "show Sherman's intentions, the deliberateness of his movements," Bruns said. "They make it clear that he wasn't going to camp here, and he wasn't going to garrison the city. So he had to destroy the city."
The documents will go on display by next September, Bruns said.
The deal for the 52 field orders was aided by the contribution of a stash of about 3,000 Confederate States of America notes that were discovered decades ago by developer Dick Myrick. Myrick, who kept the notes in a briefcase for 33 years, decided last summer to donate them to the cause of acquiring Sherman's orders.
"It really was the Confederate currency that got it started," said Seth Kaller, the historic documents dealer who had Sherman's orders. "Dick's contribution was one of the first that was significant enough for us to know the Atlanta History Center was going to be able to acquire Sherman's orders."
Then by all means, document them. In this thread. No offense, but I believe that your claims are false and that you are a liar.
And I'm not stating that LeMay is or was a terrorist...
...Timothy McVeigh was an American soldier, but I don't see many clamoring for memorials to him
Still trying to compare, by smarmy innuendo, an highly decorated American military officer with a terrorist, huh? No surprise there.
You make decent people everywhere sick to their stomachs.
fwiw, every day more southerners SADLY come to that same conclusion.
free dixie,sw
you have my permission to PM the AM for THE TRUTH on this one. the "squeaking wheel" does get the grease.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
stand, I'm pretty speechless/keyboardless at this seeming admission that you believe the United States would be better off as non-united.
I wasn't sure you'd go so far as to state that so correct me if I misunderstand.
And if so, what about the non-southern red state conservatives.....those who have helped to improve all of our lives.....yankee and southern?
"our lives,churches,families and leave us ALONE."
One might think the "us" in the above just refers to southerns.
So stand, are you one of "us" or do you separate yourself out as "southern"?
FWIW - I told you privately, long ago, in a FReepmail that your tagline offended me. I told you publicly on this thread that it offended me. I did NOT ask admin mod to make you change your tag. I HAVE asked admin mod to remove posts of yours, because I thought they were inappropriate in the place where you posted them. You are entitled to your opinions, however misguided I believe them to be. The fact is that there are MANY people on FR who are offended by them. If that makes us the "idiot fringe," well then count me in. I am amazed and shocked that you would call for a seperate southern nation. I knew that I disagreed with you, but that just takes the cake. Sign me, very proud to have been born in a FREE state of ALABAMA, in the great UNITED States of America
free dixie,sw
it's called FREEDOM of EXPRESSION. that is in the FIRST Amendment & the fact that it is first is NOT an accident.
otoh, those who "ran to tattle to the moderators" (as you did NOT! THANK YOU for that.) because they didn't think i had the RIGHT to have any opinion (including ANY opinion that disagrees with theirs) are the "idiot fringe". persons like them are the REAL danger to freedom & LIBERTY.
free dixie,sw
But you're also on record saying that southerners who remained loyal to the Union were traitors.
Are you a southern or a United States citizen, stand?
Go ahead.
Is it one or the other for you?
Help us in our quest to understand your being:)
"ran to tattle to the moderators"
Well ain't that the kettle calling the pot black:)
LOL, stand your reputation is not transparent to those who follow these threads.
that is another in a long line of FALSE & MEAN-spirited accusations about me from the coven folks.
you have my permission to go to the mods. and ask them. THEN i expect you to come back & apologize to me for your accusation.
free dixie,sw
Let's clear something up stand.
I don't need to ask your permission for anything.
Are we clear or is your arrogance misleading you once again?
I'm certain with your record of truthfullness as to your resume and accomplishments, most believe you when you say you have never tattled.
Your integrity is unmarked, stand.
LOL!!!!
So how about the answer to the southern vs US citizenship question?
A direct answer would be appropriate it seems.
and YES, i think you would need my/their permission to ask the A.M. ANYTHING PERSONAL about me or any other FReeper.
the SELF-righteousness & MEANspiritedness you folks of "the DY coven" is ASTOUNDING!
PITY that most of the members have an " about room temperature IQ", to go with their other "wunnerful, wunnerful" attributes like HATEfulness,RUDENESS,bigotry, ignorance & silliness.
free dixie,sw
Good stand, in glad to hear you are one of us.
Now go ahead and apologize and repudiate the posting you wrote which pines for the day the USA crumbles into mexico and quebec and the south rises again.
We'll wait...........
And I will never.....never ask your permission for anything stand.
Are we clear?
You are not someone I respect and thus I won't have any desire to seek out any other info on you other than that which you post.
Believe me stand, what you write gives all the info anyone would need on the likes of you:)
So, how about that retraction or clarrification.....LOL!!!
As if that will ever happen......
Old Sarge, I don't know what this argument between you and Stand Watie is all about and, frankly, I don't want to know. However, your blanket indictment of FR and, by extension, all FReepers is truly unfair. There are many FReepers who work tirelessly for the troops. A number of FReepers either have or have had relatives serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Time and time again, FReepers have put up prayer threads, or wrote prayers on various news threads, or otherwise expressed a true, heartfelt caring for our soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen (and women) and Coasties.
Over on the "Day in the life of President Bush" daily threads, we often show photos of troops, especially the wounded, and we frequently publish the prayer list of FReeper relatives serving overseas.
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub and others do superb work on behalf of our troops. I don't know who started it, but I know Tonk and many of his ping list are involved with the FR canteen.
Just yesterday, a tread was posted about the first deployment of the USS Ronald Reagan and her battle group, and everyone wished them God's speed and good hunting.
So your blanket condemnation targets both the good and the riff-raff, and that's unfortunate. There is no question FR draws its share of cranks, crazies, drunks, trolls, bottom feeders, and people who fail to notice this is 2006 not 1860 (or any of several other past decades for that matter). But so does every internet forum on which the subject matter brings out the passions of flawed human beings.
That flag and eagle are beautiful, Meg.
The Constitution was a legal compact between the states and the federal government which the states created. The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to put specific limits on the federal government's power.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that private citizens must tolerate or even respect the speech of other private citizens. Among our liberties is the right to disagree with the speech of others.
Stand Watie, you deliberately sign every single one of your posts with the slogan "free dixie,sw." Those two words say a lot about your desires, you're interest in provoking controversy, and about you as a person.
Do you have the liberty to post that slogan. Sure. Should you expect others to STFU who disagree with you when they see it? You probably do expect such, but guess what? Others enjoy the same liberties as do you, and if they want to say you have your head up your own butt so far, you clearly don't know what century we're in, they have every right to do so.
As for me, I'll side with our current Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard any day of the week and twice on weekends.
The past is the past, and it ain't coming back again. Get over it or get out of the way.
Proud to include my self as part of your designated "idiot fringe"
I pushed the abuse button when you kept the tag after the mods ask you to lose it.
MEG, 5th generation Texan
Thank you for your informative and resource sited posts.
War is Hell.
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