Just ping me next time you see them do that...Its like insulting a member of my family.
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."
If your ideal America is one where the South receives all of the benefits of being in America while living their segregated lives from the rest of us- so be it. I could not care less.
I, frankly ,am sick of seeing your comments and attacks on the matter.
Then again, for all these years- I cut you slack for being a veteran.
So here is your ideal America SW, in this small micro society of FR - a divided one- Brother against Brother.
I hope you enjoy it.
I, for one, am ashamed that all over this forum Americans refuse to stand with another American ~for the good of and in honor of our troops- who are getting shot at.
To allow petty politics and ego to get in the way of what is good and decent for a solider fighitng in a war ~is not what I am about.
See ya SW- enjoy the hell you helped create.
ping
BTTT!!
A serving solider
let's respect
that freedom is the goal.
Bullshit. FreeRepublic doesn't - as evidenced by this thread and others. Troops can go rot, they've said so themselves, especially if they don't think the same way they do.
Just ping me next time you see them do that...Its like insulting a member of my family.
Thank God there is a United States of America.
I agree with your post Diva...and I am sick of seeing our service members attacked and ridiculed. Old Sarge is a hero to my family, and should be respected for the sacrifice he pays every day.
He has a family waiting for him in the states. Yet he is serving our country so people like stand watie can have freedom of speech to stomp on him! I'm sick of seeing it!
God Bless you Sarge...remember, you are loved and respected by many! This person doesn't speak for me and my family!
PING
Well said.
free dixie,sw
why are you having a TANTRUM like a spoiled child, who doesn't get his way?
free dixie,sw
We have a war to fight TOGETHER as Americans.
God Bless America
ignoring such atrocities in the name of "let's all get along" assures that such things will happen again.
NOBODY can "whitewash" what sherman & his coven of war criminals UNDENIABLY did in the prostrated southland-NOBODY!
free dixie,sw
You have a war going on inside your head ir would seem.
i did NOT attack "old sarge" for being a veteran in combat, but simply reminded him that he is spewing out anti-southern, REVISIONIST, propaganda (whether he KNOWS that it is propaganda or not) and/or trying to cover-up what the minions of sherman, the destroyer, did.
what sherman did as a SOLDIER is not what is at stake here, but rather we must all remember that "winning at any cost" , while losing our HONOR,is NOT the American way. and it certainly is NOT DECENT, either. imVho, that is what sherman forgot, if he ever knew it.
free dixie,sw
if it had been YOUR family that was tortured,raped,robbed & slaughtered as if they were livestock, would you glory in that atrocity.
fwiw, i too, was a soldier, though i'm evidently too old to be re-called, despite my volunteering to do so more than 2 years ago.
free dixie,sw
Dear sw..You are free to sit in your armchair and fight an old war, now... and rant . Sarge is fighting a real war.
PITY, that some here don't seem to understand that relatively simple concept.
and as for attacking me personally, i wonder how many of the attackers served in the military service at all, much less did 20.5 honorable years????
free dixie,sw
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