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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He was a cokehead and a drunk, thought it's possible that someone mistook one of his abuses for opium use.
Where did you pull this gem?
You mean ratification by "The United States in Congress assembled..."? Not the individual states but the United States. As per the Articles of Confederation.
OK....I give, what the heck are you talking about?! :)
I have NOT insulted you. I never said Grant was "bloodthirsty". That was your aspersion toward Lee.
I have said that Grant committed as many men as possible to win, regardless of the loss of life. That is a historical fact. I suppose that makes him a great General from a technical sense, but I still say Lee was a better tactician. McClellan didn't defeat Lee. He forced a withdrawal at Sharpsburg, and that is not defeat. And I have been cordial to YOU. Those who choose to be rude, I respond to in kind. Robert E. Lee's Genius is not a myth. I have a cousin who is a 2nd Lt. in the US Army, and Lee is still taught at West Point as the Greatest American general.
My response to your assertion is this: Lee could have broken through to the West and continued the war, rather than surrendering, but he knew that the loss of life would be extreme, and futile, so he chose the latter. That in itself speaks of Lee's character.
What made Chamberlain great in my book, was not his prowess on the battlefield, but his attitude toward the Confederates, his generosity to them in defeat, and his intelligence in recognizing that the Confederates weren't traitors, but Americans with a different vison.
Which is one reason why my son will be attending HIS Alma Mater next year. :)
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I believe NO bilge only the truth.
Another slur. Grant was prescribed cocaine for his throat cancer. He did become addicted, but since he was dying of the throat cancer--he was dead nine months after first taking the drug--it hardly made a difference.
which marks you as too ignorant to discuss almost ANYTHING about the 19th century with,rationally.
in point of fact, DR. S.L.A. MORTON invented the drug we NOW call HEROIN in 1848 at a hospital in London, by "washing crude morphia base with dilute hydrochloric acid".
by 1860 (the drug we NOW call) heroin was routinely prescribed (mixed with aspirin) for everything from broken bones to toothache. (that is why drug addiction was called the "doctors malady" in that period. there was, of course, no "pure food & drug act" then.)
Dr. Morton was TRYING to find a "cure for morphia dependence", when he "discovered" heroin AND a safer alternative to MORPHINE, to use as a analgesic.
GEN grant had been given the drug for a "fall the patient suffered from a horse".
free dixie,sw
Nevertheless the Congress spoke in the name of the Nation even if ratification of a treaty reguired unanimous consent.
"JSU&TI" is one of those UNFORTUNATE & bigoted souls.
free dixie,sw
Cocaine was first synthesized in 1859 or 60. And you believe Grant immediately scored some? LoL
Nor was he a drunk either. He did have to resist the demon of drink but resist it he did.
But even if he were both how much more embarassing is it to have to admit being beaten by a cokehead and drunk?
ROUTINELY you post ignorant & seemingly KNOWING FALSE posts on FR.(i refuse to believe that the NONSENSE you post is ALL from IGNORANCE of the truth!)
free dixie,sw
Perhaps a little review of Greek history would tell you about the Battle of Thermopylae. There are hundreds of battles across the world and throughout history were smaller forces not just beat but routed much larger ones.
Trapping a larger force and immobilizing it through its own numbers is a common military tactic. It was commonly done by the Confederate generals who almost always faced larger forces. Those larger numbers mattered not until controlled by a man capable of using them effectively.
You really need to learn about such matters if you intend to discuss them.
Aspirin and Heroin were both synthesized by a German chemist, Heinrich Dreser , working for Bayer around the turn of the century. Bayer even copyrighted the name.
There were some preliminary work done on both in England during the 1870-80s but this did not become commercial. I have seen nothing crediting the gentleman you refer to with either though he could well have been experimenting with similiar drugs.
I agree.
Still haven't come up with that list of distinguished Southern anti-bellum writers and artists, I see. I will keep waiting.
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