Posted on 12/09/2006 11:41:02 AM PST by Gondring
The "bi-partisan" crap starts again: I Say NO Way, NOPE, Never, NOT-Gonna-Happen. I hate that now that Democrats have technically "won" The Election 2006, that they expect us to SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN and to "give in-to-their-agenda" through "bipartisanship": I SAY NO WAY, NOT GONNA HAPPE: NEVER! !!!!
The Union was supported mainly by the northern Delaware cities. The agricultural center and southern counties had men who went South in search of CSA units to join up with, so we don't have a true count of how many Delawareans fought for the CSA.
But I'll have to relay your comment to Capt. Washington Vickers, CSA, buried in Georgetown.
"To obtain the largest possible "reasonable Confederate manpower pool," we took the white males between the ages of 15 and 45 from most of the 15 slave states; we took only those between the ages of 18 and 45 from Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, western Virginia and Tennessee; and we ignored Delaware. This selection was made because the younger men from the border states and Tennessee (much of which was occupied early in the conflict) would not have had much practical opportunity to enlist; Delaware is ignored because it contributed almost no one to the Confederate military.
Delaware contributed about 12,000 troops to the union side by the way.
Torie--the link is based on conjecture. I've listed two people I know of that served in the CSA from Georgetown.
There were many more--you would have to search the rosters of the Maryland and Virginia, and other CSA units to see how many there were.
Delaware did not contribute almost no one. We just don't know how many. Many went away and never came back, having died on the field being listed as a casualty from another state.
Biden dosen't stand a chance.
Ok. But Delaware was the least grey of the slave states by a country mile.
Agreed, but let's not burst Biden's bubble, OK? :)
Sussex County has been called the northermost southern county
I can tell you from my relatives over on the Eastern Shore that places like Easton and Denton were CSA right up through the 1960's.
Edwards one would think.
Yeah, it was explained to me - but I always thought of him as the breck girl, so I thought some dem had joined the circus when my back was turned.
MD was really a CSA state, just that Lincoln had their Assembly arrested b/4 they could secede legally.
Old Dixie Ping
I hope someone got this on tape and plays in the black churches where he'll be campaigning later on. What a two face.
"he's certifiably crazy"
I thought McCain held that title.
Hillary doesn't have the "proper" hair to win in the South.
It's not big enough.
And her accent is all wrong.
Hillary will never exude Moonlight and Magnolias and it doesn't come in a bottle.
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