They won't.
They come out at night.
Posted on 04/03/2004 9:02:32 PM PST by WKB
As is customary across the South, Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April as "confederate Heritage Month" in Mississippi. In keeping with this important, public recognition of our valiant Confederate ancestors, the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library, the Friends of the Library, and the Gainesville Volunteer (Sons of Confederate Veterans) are featuring a Confederate "Heritage of Honor" display in the library's foyer through April 12, 2004.
The public is cordially invited to view the display during regular library hours. In declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month, Gov. Barbour said: "Whereas April is the month in which the Confederate States began and ended a four-year struggle; and, whereas, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation's past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us; now, therefore, I, Haley Barbour, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi."
The Crosby Memorial Library display features some dozen unusual, full-size Confederate battleflags, military uniforms, weapons, antique quilts, portraits of Magnolia State Confederates, various Confederate artifacts, and numerous books, magazines, and newsletters detailing the valor of Mississippi's arms during that heroic struggle for Southern freedom. Importantly, the Crosby Memorial Library's Confederate Heritage display is both the largest and longest-running such display in Mississippi and, possibly, the South.
This display has garnered the Margaret Reed Crosby Memorial Library the prestigious "John L. Harris Heritage Preservation Award" from the Mississippi Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. This award is named for a Black Confederate servant who, in later years as a Mississippi Representative, was instrumental in the construction of the impressive Monument to the Confederate Dead that stands on the grounds of the Old Capitol in Jackson.
Don't mis this rich, colorful, and enlightening display, produced by the Gainesville Volunteers, SCV (MS Division Camp of the Year for four of the last seven years). For more information about our Confederate "Heritage of Honor," please visit www.mississippiscv.org or email huffman@ametro.net.
That's what you call liberation is it? I'd call it mass looting, rape, arson, and murder of innocent civilians
I think you know that I was commenting on your hysterical reaction to you being the butt of a joke. It smacks of hypocrisy, given you thin skinned you are. I thought it was pretty funny myself. But as I said, after reading your remarks on this thread, it seems I was right without even knowing it.
As far as who won the Civil War - there can be no argument - the Union left ol dixie a mess (kinda like a bi*ch-slapping).
Only if any win is a bitch slapping.
I'll give you a free tip - on these threads you are supposed to "win" the argument by cutting and pasting about 9 pages of text.
Yeah, cause they were INVADED. The fact still remains though that a smaller southern army was able to inflict substantially greater casualties upon a larger and better equipped northern army both in battle deaths and deaths off the field. Winning the war was no easy task for the north and it strained every last resource they had over four long bloody years of failure to subdue something that Abe Lincoln first thought he could handle in about a month.
All we ever did was secede and ask the hostile armies sitting within our borders to leave and return to their own. Lincoln's the one who invaded us.
It's a simple matter of observation and deduction from that observation, non-seq. There were people on the subway who smelled like New York's sidewalks. Those sidewalks had a urine stench, therefore it's a reasonable conclusion that the people on the subway pissed all over themselves (quite possibly while aiming for the sidewalk as they apparently so often do) and failed to clean themselves up afterwards.
No problem.
Grant didn't out maneuver Lee as much as he overwhelmed him.The South was failing, fading... unable to replace men, horses, ammunition, etc. They had lost too many good men and had no one to replace them. How do you replace a Stonewall Jackson and a JEB Stuart.
That's not saying that Grant wasn't a good general. His victories in the West proved that his brand of fighting was effective. But, as strategist, he can not be put into the same class as Lee. Lee fought with more handicaps than Grant did. And despite those handicaps, Lee was successful. And, oh, how he succeeded.
What Grant understood more than those who came before him was that the objective of the war was Lee and not Richmond. Grant also knew that Lee could not rearm or build up his army. Grant knew that he could slowly bleed Lee out, which he did. For that, Grant deserves all kudos.
Grant was gracious in victory...and Lee was gracious in defeat. Both their quality shone that day. Too bad, we can't learn a lesson from them.
Each general brought their own strength and weaknesses to the battle field to life. But, if I was a fighting man... I would want to be in Jackson's army... IMO, he was the top general of the Civil War -- bar none.
They won't.
They come out at night.
We seem to have a thing for wacky female Democrate governors. But alas, our Republican ones aren't much better.
You would.
Typical whining rebel response. I guess you bit off a bit more than you could chew, didn't you?
I could honestly not care less what you and the rest of the state of Mississippi choose to celebrate. But be honest about it. By far the single most important reason for the southern rebellion was defense of the institution of slavery, your claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
Oh stop that.
First of all, the WBTS was not a "Southern rebellion."
It was a legitimate cause: that being the right of
individual states to secede from an overreaching, all
too powerful union. Try thinking in terms of today's
monstrosity in Washington, D.C. and the abomination
known as Roe V Wade. There's a state's issue if there
ever was one.
What the Yankees did to the Constitution in 1865,
is the root of the evil which encompasses us today.
Slavery was ugly, it was wrong, but it also wrong
to insist that slavery was the issue that started the WBTS.
Yes, it did.
Exactly right and
thank you.
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