[JoeProBono]

[Bean Counter]

This month’s Smithsonian Magazine has an excellent cover article about the attack on Fort Sumpter that set off the Civil War. Great read...

[central_va]

Quotes of Jefferson Davis

“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a ‘rebellion’ is a gross abuse of language.”

“Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .”

“Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.”

“The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.” Jefferson Davis, address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.

“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”

[central_va]

In before the Southern hating Anti-Free Republic Federal Bootlicks.

[BenLurkin]

"He attacked his own people. His own people.

"And he showed them no mercy by sending his well-armed troops to crush them. He refused to listen to the pleas of foreign leaders who begged him to stop the relentless attacks against his people. And still, he kept killing these people. His own people.

"I'm talking about Abraham Lincoln, of course."

Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698676/posts

[Happy Rain]

Even though Robert E Lee didn't really make his historical debut until after the first battle of Manasses HE was the STAR of the “War To Protect The South From Evil War Criminals Like Sherman And Sheridan Who Raped Murdered And Burned The Innocent Land Across The South.”

I sometimes wish Lee had done to Pennsylvania what those monsters did to the South but then I remember why we were the good guys.

[Lees Swrd]

Dang it I have a site book marked somewhere that had some War of Northern Aggression pictures I had never seen before I will try to find it and post it to you.

[central_va]

Not a one of them could honestly deny, that if one had a crystal ball back then that could show those Union soldiers the US circa 2011, that half would have tossed their rifles in the mud and went back home.

                      -- triumphant values
  

[kalee]

ping

[theDentist]

I didn’t notice the anniversary date... April 12-13, 1861

[Berlin_Freeper]

I had a friend from Louisiana who swore the South was going to do it again.

[RayChuang88]

I my humble opinion, the biggest blunder the Confederates made was the infamous Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863 against the Union positions on Cemetery Ridge. You'd think the very able Confederate commanders would have figured out the lessons of the Battle of Bunker Hill (the British lost over 1,000 soldiers in taking Breed's Hill) and NOT do a direct frontal attack on enemy position that had a major height and sight advantage over the attackers.

[KoRn]

I look at the War Between the States as the beginning of our end as a country. It marked the death of the country that our Founders started, and the birth of the country that is in serious decline today.

[razorback-bert]

Pinging you for some old photos, which are supposed to coming soon.

[central_va]

This one is getting nasty.