Posted on 07/03/2023 4:12:26 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.
I think a lot of the post war hostility toward Longstreet was because he became a Republican and a support of Grant’s Presidency.
I used to play a war game based on the Battle of Gettysburg with some friends. If I used Longstreet’s strategy of flanking the left of the Union line anchored on the Round Tops, with his Corps, I won every time.
Lee should have listened to Longstreet.
Like Pavlov's dogs, you have been trained well to regurgitate "SLAVERY" if anyone ever mentions the attempt of a collection of states to leave the corrupt, despotic sewer of government that is Washington DC today, and was Washington DC in 1861.
I have come to realize that when someone talks about "slavery" when the topic is the Civil War, it's because they have been taught to avoid the actual topic about which the war was fought.
Can States be free of DC?
And slavery has nothing to do with it.
Also, i'm not from the South, don't have any ancestors that fought in it, and don't have any that lived in any of the Southern States. Family came here in the 1900s, long after it was over.
“July 3rd 1863, was the death knell of the Republic as the founders envisioned it. Jeffersonian democracy was dead and the end of the war ushered in our current Federal behemoth...”
Yes, and what was “Liberty” in the Declaration of Independence became “Freedom” after the war. Liberty is endowed by God, freedom by government.
‘Nuf said . . .
The day Treason began to die.
Andrew Jackson would loved it.
I met a Longstreet at Lookout Mountain. Nice young woman. Great. Smile
Look at the history of New York’s money and the Southern contribution.
The “treason” argument is laughable. No Confederate politician or Military member was charged with treason for two reasons. One, the right to Secession was understood to be the domain of the states. There were secession clauses in the State Constitutions of many of the Northern states as well including New York and Massachusetts. Secondly, despite the urging of the radical Republicans, many in DC were afraid that the Supreme Court was either nullify or completely throw out any conviction based on the above.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court believed that if the Confederates were found not guilty, the war would have meant nothing.
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