Happy Birthday, General Robert E. Lee, born January 19, 1807

Who was Who in the Civil War ^ | Unknown | Stewart Sifakis

[4CJ]

He signed up today.

[4CJ]

RayFrederick signed up today. Sherman (*SPIT*) was a mass murderer, his troops raped and slaughtered their way across Georgia & South Carolina - meeting token resistance from feeble old men, women and children. Their homes and crops were destroyed, they were robbed of their personal property including jewelry, silverware and monies. Women and children were captured and sent into Northern slavery.

Sherman (*SPIT*) though the country was swarming with Jews, and even issued an order expelling them. Regarding Southerners, he wrote his wife of "extermination, not of soldiers alone". To which his dutiful wife responded that she wished for a war of extermination and that all Confederates would be driven like "swine into the sea".

After the war Sherman (*SPIT*) waged war on the Native Americans, "even to their extermination, men, women and children." He gave orders that "soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age."

Some hero.

[Rebelbase]

It was a time and place so different from today, with such a different a concept of the rights of states and one's own obligation to the Federal Government, that it is understandable that you feel contempt for Lee.

Traitors spend time in prison or are executed. Lee lived a publily accessible live for five years after the war and even visted with President Grant on a business proposal once during that time, hardly the actions a President would bestow upon a traitor.

From the comfort of your modern conveniences I hope you will relfect on having never been challenged to choose between killing your own family/fellow Virginians or an invading army from an adjoining state, I wish you well.

[TexConfederate1861]

Yes...I noticed he was new. A fine addition to the WLAT Brigade.....though he does seem suspiciously like someone else....

[Conservative til I die]

Oy vey, the Confederate apologists are too much. Are you in a state of arrested development? Forgot to leave the toy soldier games behind with your youth?

[Conservative til I die]

Oy vey, the Confederate apologists are too much. Are you in a state of arrested development? Forgot to leave the toy soldier games behind with your youth?

[TexConfederate1861]

and your point is what?

[Non-Sequitur]

"Sherman is not only a great soldier, but a great man. He is one of the very great men in our country's history. He is an orator with few superiors. As a writer he is among the first. As a general I know of no man I would put above him. Above all - he has a fine character - so frank, so sincere, so outspoken, so genuine. There is not a false line in Sherman's character - nothing to regret." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1879

[Conservative til I die]

That's nice and all but the three-tooth contingent here are so blind in their bitterness, failing to see past "Dayum Yankees" and "The Waw of Northern Agrission," failing to realize that one of the main issues they fought for was the right to own and brutalize other people.

[tracer]

Perhaps the current administration could persuade the Congress to combine Martin Luther King Day and Robert E. Lee's birthday into a single national holiday.

"Blessed are the peacemakers," Jesus said. I wouldn't know, for it does not appear that I am one, at least in the present case.

Just kidding/sick joke/no offense intended/going into hiding/didn't mean nuthin' by it/flame away......... 8~)

[TLI]

Name of the first bank? If there is one here, I am transfering this week.

[Non-Sequitur]

They also forgot who started it.

"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. And I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave-in until we are whipped - or they are." -- William T. Sherman

[TexConfederate1861]

I would support such a move, but it is not likely to happen.

[TexConfederate1861]

Well sir, before you "assume" that is the case, let me enlighten you a bit.....

My Grandfather 3 times removed on Dad's side was a Texas Ranger, a Hero of San Jacinto, and a renowned Indian Fighter, who was a cattleman, and didn't own a SINGLE slave. Fought with distinction in the Western theater of the war. Chickamauga, Dalton, Atlanta, Red River, etc.

Other ancestor on Mom's side lived on a small 2-horse Plantation in Gainesville, Ga, inherited 50 slaves, freed all of them in 1860 (at the time his dad died.) and fought in the 11th Georgia Infantry, thru Sharpsburg, 2nd Manassas, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and was captured at Knoxville in DEC 1863. He spent two years in Rock Island, Ill. as a prisoner of war, who was treated harshly for his refusal to take the ironclad "oath", etc.

Both, didn't believe in slavery, BOTH fought for the South, the latter had his life saved, when his black body-servant (not slave) took a bullet for him in the Devils Den at Gettysburg.

Don't swallow the propaganda about slavery. There were some who did, but most could have cared less....

[TexConfederate1861]

Lincoln started it...he tried to resupply Sumter.

[TexConfederate1861]

Grant....another one of my relations....unfortunately!

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Such a gesture of unity would lead to another war, and that one definitely would not be a war "between the states"....

[TexConfederate1861]

There are some that believe that "war" may be coming sooner than thought. Especially with the unchecked immigration in this country.

[Non-Sequitur]

Lincoln started it...he tried to resupply Sumter

Davis started it...he fired on Sumter.

[TexConfederate1861]

Not before Lincoln tried to re-supply. That was a blatant act of WAR.