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."
and once more, i'm NOT going to let you get away with calling us southern conservatives, "revisionists".
REVISIONIST HISTOIOGRAPHY is a 1960's vintage HERESY out of the most extreme, lunatic fringe of LEFTIST (some would say, COMMUNIST!) "poison ivy league screwls" history departments out of new england & CA.
traditional scholarship on the WBTS was/IS PRO-dixie or NEUTRAL.
free dixie,sw
Stand down there General Lee...I think what my friend and fellow soldier (who is currently in Iraq) is trying to make an analogy to is the 9/11 attack.
If I remember correctly the terrorists brought the war to us didn't they?
SW it's not Old Sarge's thread...and he was trying to draw parallel's to the current WOT.
Read a little cloer first before you jump on people.
THAT "pack of filth & merciless killers" has NOTHING to do with "old sarge's" HONORABLE SERVICE in-theatre. NOTHING!
free dixie, sw
This guy is once again totally out of control slandering me as "FR's very own HATER" and viciously attacking others on this thread.
I honor your service but not your rants against "yankees" over the War.
Past wrongs, even atrocities.... certainly not century old ones...., are not something I dwell on nor harbor in my heart.
I understand perfectly that we must learn from the past,.. but you seem to live in it. It appears to be a very dark place to dwell ..
RE-read what i wrote before you "chastise" me.
fwiw, SOME on FR are KNOWING HATERS (who despise the south, our traditions, our memorials to our honored dead, our final resting places of our dead,our culture;and & our southern people) & SOME are just ignorant.
i can "make excuses" for the ignorant ones (they can learn), but NOT for the south-HATERS & BIGOTS, who masquerade as "patriots" and/or "conservatives".
if those miserable creatures were not so busy hating dixie & our southern people, they would be some other sort of BIGOT/HATER. (come over on the WBTS threads if you want to see HATRED & anti-southern PROPAGANDA.)
free dixie,sw
Basically, if folks here can't get over a war that occurred nearly 150 years ago and have a civil and rational discussion, then I guess we'll have to start throwing people in the cooler or worse.
We've been letting these threads have a little too much latitude, so let's start right now. Who wants to be the first one in the cooler?
No takers?
That would be good.
We'll see.
haven't got the guts, have you????
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
LMBO!!
I finally work up my courage to post on this thread and what do I see but your message!! Is this a good time to use my Get out of Jail FREE card?? He he he!!
when SOME here said that they were GLAD that sherman did those atrocities to MY family (and that "that bunch of drunken red savages deserved exactly what they got.", as ONE former FReeper said!), i just get angry. wouldn't YOU???
free dixie,sw
Keep that card handy. Between the civil war threads and the crevo threads, I'm thinking a massive arrest might be in order.
Don't even get me started about the Kwanzaa threads.
If everyone just tones it down, nobody goes to jail. But we have a really big jail and there's plenty of room for people who ignore this warning.
Carry on.
You attack me everyday you post on FR with the tagline that you carry, and it's offensive to me. So I usually choose to ignore you. I HONESTLY don't CARE what shade of skin anyone has -- mine isn't WHITE either. IT's a shade of brown -- albeit not as dark or light as others. I don't care for ANYONE throwing around the RACIST or BIGOT names. They are way overused around here IMHO. Anyone basing ANYTHING they think of someone else on the tone of their skin is shallow beyond words. Stop playing the damn victim.
ROFL -- I usually steer WAY CLEAR of these threads. I hate the drama. And I think I will now return to my little corner of FR. LOL
I get that we must learn from accurate history.. What I don't get is your" generalized", blanket hatred and your dwelling in the past, "nursing" your wounds that cannot heal because you keep picking at them.
Your tagline...Pot/kettle
Amen.
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