Try this book. Women imprisoned in great numbers during the civil war in missouri.
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.
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.
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.
Where's that "Not this shit again" guy?
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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.
is the author of this tripe any relation to Mike"Lumpy Riefenstahl" Moore by chance?...I see alot of writing similarity.
Try this book. Women imprisoned in great numbers during the civil war in missouri.500,000 lives lost in WWII.
600,000 lives lost in the Civil War.
If the figures are true, this was far from a ginsu knife fight.
I didn't know stuff from Spy was online. "Admit it - it sucks!" was a feature they ran for awhile, trying to deflate pointy-headed devotion to something that people became expert in mostly to show off or stand out. I remember that jazz and the organic grocery were two other topics.
I always liked Spy, and am sorry it's gone.
I taped the series years ago when it was on PBS. I recently broke out the old tapes, and they just didn't cut it. So, I paid the $99.00 + tax for the DVDs and I am very happy I did. It is superb.
I watch it on my 25" not HDTV. But, I hope to watch it on my new 57" HDTV that I would like to buy just before football season.
I bought the Shelby Foote trilogy for my dad several years ago. When he died, I inherited them and plan on reading them sometime.
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Thanks for the tip on Footes history series on the CW . I'll go hit the B&N for a copy of the set.
Stay safe Sam !