Posted on 03/03/2006 11:37:56 AM PST by Rebeleye
The removal of the Confederate flag from Amherst County's official seal has upset Southern heritage groups, who contend residents weren't told of the change. County officials acknowledge the image was quietly removed in August 2004 to avoid an uproar.
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free dixie,sw
In sheer dead, maybe. As a percentage of the respective total forces, much less so. Lee squandered more than he could afford. And contrary to Grant at Cold Harbor, who (thanks to lousy recon by Meade) didn't know how dug in the CS forces were, Lee could see perfectly what the Union postion on top of Cemetery Ridge was.
Now I will cut Lee some slack, too. If we believe that Stuart was supposed to hit the Union rear at the same time, the attack might have gone down as one of the most brilliant of the war, and it might have even won the war for the south.
Then you end up in the position of elevating Custer into the man who singlehandedly saved the Union.
the peerLESS LEE couldn't believe that grant would be "foolish enough to attack on this ground".
grant was PROBABLY "juiced to the gills" that day. he also reportedly was taking HEROIN & ASPIRIN for a "bad tooth". (i do NOT know that to be a FACT! i read it some years ago in a memoir by one of the unionist officers. UNlike the DY coven members, i do NOT intentionally post FICTION and or KNOWING lies.)
free dixie,sw
1) Prove that the book "Yachts Against Subs" exists. Any citation will do.
2) Present one of the scurrilous racist attacks you claim I e-mailed you.
OR,
Admit that these were both fabrications.
That's it. Should be easy right? I'd think you'd jump at the chance to prove that things you said were true and shut me up for good.
But of course you can't, can you? All you can do is foam at the mouth and pretend that you've somehow "shunned" me instead of admitting the truth--that I'd embarassed you repeatedly and that all you can do now is the cyber equivalent of putting your hands over your ears and saying "LA LA LA LA."
I love it. You can't say anything without it being easily debunked, can you? Aspirin wasn't invented until 1899.
UNlike the DY coven members, i do NOT intentionally post FICTION and or KNOWING lies.
And yet you post so many, so consistently. Personally I believe that you WISH these things were true, then some subconcious process makes you BELIEVE that they're true, right down to attributing them to some book (or magazine article) that you half remember reading.
Nolu Chan was banned posting QUOTES from Abraham Lincoln, in which Lincoln used certain words multiple times that are today deemed to be offensive. The information/post in question has cited Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream by Lerone Bennett. Mr. Bennett is black, and pointed out the hypocritical positions held by yankees and Lincoln.
The post which led to Nolu chan's banishment has been restored, although the thread is locked to further posts.
NC was banned by an admin acting like a heavy-handed, jack-booted thug - the post in question noted that the content was attributed to Lincoln and ridiculed by Mr. Bennett, but is seems that one administrator is a Lincolnite, and can't handle the truth about their hero.
Certain people critiquing the Clinton administration tended to meet disaster, and it seems that some critiquing Lincoln met similar cyber fates. Anyone can contrast the positions of my favourite President, Ronald W. Reagan, and that of Lincoln and find the two were light years apart - Reagan - God bless him - understood federalism and the checks and balances instituted by the framers, favoured small/limited government and personal responsibility - the antithesis of Lincoln's positions of high taxes, big government, a nanny state and the destruction of the frame of government created by the founders.
I listed dozens of great artists and writers from the North. You can't even list any other than Bryant and Poe and this was just off the top of my head.
Come on show me up list some great Southern writers from the Anti-Bellum period.
What I said was simple but, of course, you couldn't understand. The Treaty was signed by representatives of the United States not representatives of states. States were NOT independent of the Nation but parts of the Nation.
Uh, I spoke of the siege at Vicksburg and showed how Grant achieved a victory in the greatest siege of the century in order to refute your silly LIE that he was nothing but a butcher.
And no Cold Harbor was not an event more disastrous than Pickett's Charge.
My opinion of myself is unchanging.
Anyone who cares can see for themselves. Most do not care because they have seen your mendacity in action themselves.
And what do you think THAT means?
I need a good laugh so why don't YOU give me a list of all the outstanding anti-bellum writers, inventors and artists from the South.
Should be simple enough for one as knowledgeable as you.
Those brave people in Eastern Tennessee, West Virginia, Northern Alabama, NE Mississippi were true Americans who didn't dance to the tune of the Slaver aristocracy.
They are the Southerners worthy of respect and praise.
What a moron. Heroin was not even INVENTED when Grant was kicking confederate ass.
What other moronic tales do you have for us? Grant was a cannibal child-molesting cross dresser?
You just misspelled "misspelled." You should probably stop now.
And I don't think I'm on the losing side of an argument when I stand with the Union and the flag of the United States. And just what argument was it that you made that I'm on the losing side of? You came onto this thread with no more than a childish "but what are you?" insult in post #725, where you tell JSU&TI that he's "reveled" the truth about himself.
Just wait. He'll tell us that he read it in a book whose title he can't remember now, then get angry when we don't just swallow it.
Please stand never GETS angry. He is ALWAYS angry.
You also have to remember that Lee felt that the Federals were weakest at the center. There were more units in reserve than he realized, until the attack began. Under the tactics of the day, the charge was a sound plan, but as you mentioned, Stuart didn't do his job, and also the execution, (Longstreet's bad) was not carried off correctly.
So is MY opinion of YOU.
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