Posted on 07/11/2004 7:17:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
BTW, I've started reading Shelby Foote's 2,976 page history of the Civil War and it is fascinating reading. Barne's & Noble has in stock this work in three separate volumes.
As well, I've been viewing Ken Burn's DVD's on the Civil War on my new 60" HDTV. It's an awesome documentary even though Ken Burn's is an horse's ass in person and PBS sucks.
I was recently in Alabama and talked to some folks about the Civil War. The ill feelings still lingers on even to this day.
As a "Yankee" I must say that I respect both sides of the conflict. The Confederates thought they were doing the right thing by seceding from the Union and the Union thought they were doing the right thing by fighting to preserve the Union.
Personally I am just glad that the Union is back together again as I love the Southland and would hate to have to go through customs to visit it.
More properly known as the "War of Northern Aggression."
As a Southerner who can laugh at herself, my favorite line of the piece is this one:
"Certainly we are taught as impressionable schoolchildren to believe the Civil War was a noble crusade to free the slaves. But by the time we reach adulthood, most of us either are white people or have been around enough white people to know that white people just don't do things like that - it isn't in their DNA."
the American Civil War was a hokey, small-time, ginsu-knife affair that would have been over in three months if the North's generals hadn't all been cowards, bunglers or drunks
We lost half a million more than any other war combined and this guy says it was small. If the war had gone differently we would be living in a different world. Who wrote this article is an idiot.
Just asking, do you consider Maryland a Southern state?
As a southerner, I agree.
As a RevWar guy, I have ALWAYS hated the (un)Civil War. Six-hundred thousand American dead...never a good outcome.
I find "The Late Unpleasantness" more genteel. :)
or the WBTS ;-)
My YOUNGEST little sonny boy, who is 20, (200 lb, 6 ft. tall body builder), is studying the Civil War in a college history course, I will hand this one to him! I wonder what will happen if he includes this with his report on the war?????? tee hee hee
A half million soldiers... plus or minus a million civilian and war related deaths during the "Second American Revolution" and garbage like this pops up. No doubt this author received his public education during LBJ's failed Great Society.
It's a part of our great American culture that shouldn't be supressed in favor of Cinco De Mayo and Gay Pride themes.
Them's fightin' words ping
They died of Southern fever, of Rebel shot and shell, those dirty theivin' yankees are better off in Hell!
Now that was fun.
Yessir. No mention of getting shellacked at Ft. Sumpter.
You mean "The Late Unpleasantness"?
The Civil War was indeed a tragedy. Literally brother fighting against brother. Let's hope it never happens again.
Where's that "Not this shit again" guy?
So9
But I can let this one slide, because a) Joe is a Phillies fan with all the psychoses that entails, and b) he's a great writer.
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