Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg

https://www.amazon.com ^ | March 1, 2010 | Rod Gragg

[RegulatorCountry]

The Navy was due to distrust of the leadership, the uniform manufacturing was due to getting short shrift from that same leadership. He walked a tightrope all through that war, balancing the wants and needs of the entire State. As I said, he was a good and decent man in a difficult circumstance. The fools who condemn every Confederate are beyond contempt. Not all were part of it willingly, but they gave their all once in. That was certainly the case in NC.

[philman_36]

They enlisted voluntarily in large numbers though.

Be truthful, the threat of conscription and the draft prompted many to volunteer.

A man could hire a substitute who would serve in his place, or he could simply pay $300 to get out of the obligation.

Dividing the rich and the poor even way back then.
Poor boys fighting a rich man's war.

[Bull Snipe]

In the Confederacy, you could pay a fee and avoid the draft. Also in the Confederacy, if you owned 20 slaves you got to watch the Civil War from the comfort of your veranda.
If you didn’t on a slave or less than 20 of them you got to see the Civil War in places like the Hornets Nest, Malvern Hill, Cemetery Ridge, Vicksburg. A higher percentage of the Confederate Army were drafted than in the Union Army.

[RegulatorCountry]

You’re being rather selective again in your history. Do you actually think that northerners didn’t buy their way out of being drafted, lol?

Surely you’re not that blinkered by partisan thinking.

[Bull Snipe]

Sure the did, probably by the thousands. Southerners also bought their way out of the draft also probably by the thousands. So what, the draft laws drawn up by both the Confederate Congress and the United States Congress included provision allowed for that. So what. No proof that huge numbers of immigrants were drafted fresh off the boat as you have insinuated. Who is blinkered by partisan thinking.

[RegulatorCountry]

You seem confused. I’ve not made that claim here, although it’s been claimed since the Civil War.

[philman_36]

Nice switch. I see what you’re doing.

[philman_36]

Well then...let's get to the thick of your thinking...

Was slavery the reason for the Civil War?...in your opinion that is.

[rockrr]

Democrats then as democrats today, they tipped the table over and stomped off in a huff at losing an election (sound familiar?).

Slavery was just their stated reason.

[rockrr]

That is, if we are to take them at their word.

[jmacusa]

Jefferson formed the Democrat-Republican Party which later became the Democrat Party by the 1830s and was pro-slavery. While Marx and Lincoln exchanged letters Lincoln and Republicanism Lincoln was against slavery while the Southern democrats, with British sympathies were pro slavery. The fact remain unchanged, The South went to war to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor and expand it into the new territories in the West. “Bleeding Kansas’ is a good example of that.

[jmacusa]

Coward? really? I’m right here asshole, what’s your problem?

[jmacusa]

Venerate asshole. You hold these losers up as if they walked on water.

[jmacusa]

Fort Sumter is located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina you moron, look it up.

[jmacusa]

The South started a war it coudn’t hope to win. It lost. Nothing changes that you asshole. Nothing.

[jmacusa]

I saw your honor roll asshole. How come I’m not on it? You really are one paranoid , judgemental son of a bitch. You got issues dude, serious ones. You need to seek help. I’m serious.

[wardaddy]

You have wasted bandwidth on this forum for a long time living to disparage my people and equate them with Nazis as you preen drunk with cheap virtue

On a conservative forum where you one note johnnies are tolerated why I don’t know

How that furthers conservatism constantly attacking the most conservative part of the electorate defies logic

That you do that without ever disclosing who you are or where you are from demonstrates you are indeed a coward or have something to hide

In my dealing with your nest only two have ever disclosed anything about their personal perspective

Unlike you I don’t hide....I can ping a half dozen posters that can verify that’s me on the homepage as well as point to two or three threads thst demonstrate me partaking in freeper activism

And yep that’s me on the 300 freepathon Wall

What about you ....the subterfuge south hating agitator

Anyone can claim to be anything on the internet as you are won’t to do as I recall

How many times have you been busted so far making it up?

If you believe so strongly in your bullshit then. Why hide?

Nobody is filed with the hate you have for people you don’t know from Adam without having some axe to grind

So fess up.

What’s your beef?

Nobody here is calling for a return to slavery or to secede (again)

We want to be left alone from do goodness like you who are allied with leftists in their hatred of The South and America in case you haven’t noticed

Your diatribes are precisely why the left uses

So why are you even here aping the rhetoric of the left?

There is a direct line from your blather to attacks on the Founders and Christianity and nay even Lincoln now....

You need to wake your ass up and get that chip off your shoulder

Bro and Snipe can ego argue the war causes and right to secede for you....but you need to refocus on your real enemy

[jmacusa]

I haven’t called anyone a Nazi you asshole. Go fly a kite , you’re a pain in the ass.

[wardaddy]

Try to express yourself without steady invective

You can do it

[wardaddy]

I think the forum knows what your problem is

Good luck