First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.
Posting history, in reverse order
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Link to previous New York Times thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4111309/posts
NYTimes propagandizing in 1862 just as now— “rebels refuse to Surrender Fredericksburg”... that IS a good one! Thanks for posting.
Facts, known then to the reportage— Burnside crazily ordere massed attacks on Marye’s Heights, and across the river plain, and never broke through. Burnside lost Fredericksburg, and uh... he never surrendered, skulked away.Grant relieved him of command after the fiasco caused by him and Meade not sending in black troops as Grant intended to the Crater. Lincoln took care of his incompetence by first assigning him to KY/OH region where no-one cared for him (in that area few abolitionists at all), and later Grant and Lincoln removed him from the Union Army for the remainder of the war.Fairly incompetent plodder. Just observations from history.
Interesting spin of really fake news of the NYTimes. Thanks!