Posted on 10/02/2007 1:10:01 PM PDT by BGHater
AMERICANA, Brazil
Now well past 90, Judith MacKnight Jones is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the illness that robbed her of all of her memory, her most precious asset.
She has been lying here for the past 11 years, covered by a patchwork blanket, made from pieces her great-grandmother brought from the United States between 1865 and 1885, after the Confederacy lost the Civil War.
Unable to speak or remember now, her book "Soldado Descanso" ("Rest Soldier") is written in Portuguese, but soon will be translated into English, as the publisher thinks Americans should know about the proud history of Confederate immigrants settling in Brazil, finding a new home here but maintaining many of the traditions they brought from Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, the Carolinas and Georgia.
Her daughter-in-law, Heloisa Jones, said patchwork is only one of the values the Americans have brought.
This blanket is not just any patchwork, she said, "these pieces are very old and reflect a valuable tradition," she said.
"Over a century old and symbolizing our heritage, the flight from our homelands, it is extremely important to keep it that way. I teach my children and grandchildren the American values our ancestors have brought with them. And I expect them to teach their children and grandchildren the same," she said.
Every spring, hundreds of the descendants of the soldiers who lost the war against the North go to the cemetery they call O Campo. They party and meet dressed in traditional costumes, staging shows, singing Southern songs like "When the Saints Come Marching In" or "Oh Susannah," playing banjos and blowing trumpets, the men eventually getting drunk on home-brewed beer.
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The Confederate draft didn’t bring a lot of draftees into the army. However, what the draft law DID do was stimulate volunteering. Many draft age southerners, faced with the draft, chose instead to volunteer. By volunteering, the men could choose their unit (usually a locally-raised one) and their branch of service (infantry, cavalry, artillery). Many regiments were raised in early 1862 of these late-coming volunteers.
The Union draft law operated somewhat the same way, with one twist. Many poor men who couldn’t afford the $300 to purchase an exemption formed what were essentially draft insurance pools, whereby 30 men would contribute $10 apiece to a pool so that if any of them was drafted, the pool could pay the $300 for the exemption. The government took the $300, and with the money raised could afford to pay those high enlistment bonuses that drew recruits.
IMHO, that puts you in the same league as the Radical Republicans who wanted Lee, Stuart and others hung as common criminals.
It is as insulting as those Leftist anti war protesters calling the Army in Iraq "murderers" and then hypocritically saying "but we support our soldiers".
appropriately sourced.....
I'm sure they would have had a trial first.
BTTT....
the sanctimonious here will never get it
they live to feel morally supeior at our expense...even at the price of eating their own
...their own being fellow conservatives whose voting habits are the only finger in the Big Left dyke stopping a permanent flood
some are black conservatives who just can’t stomach Dixie...that’s their problem but I will concede them that over cracker preening poseurs
One reason was the vast population of Free men to choose from.
And the fact that the South was losing and slowly bled white of healthy young men.
Desperation makes “impossibly” very close relations to “most likely”.
As fair as could be held under the circumstances.
Or is that being bled of healty white young men? Lee himself stated his opposition to using black soldiers and his preference for white ones in a letter dated January 1865. But he also saw the need for fresh fodder and reluctantly supported the drafting of slaves and free blacks.
I was not addressing "Southerners" - as my post made quite clear, I was referencing a single idiot with an irrational phobia for the color blue.
You are not so ignorant as to believe that Colonel.
They feared majority black rule...not unlike South Africa or Rhodesia....many areas in the Deep South are majority black....some heavily so.....their fears were not unfounded.
Come down here and take a gander at Jackson Mississippi, Mobile Alabama, Montgomery Alabama, Memphis,New Orleans, Atlanta proper....or just go north at see Detroit.
Folks feared what has happened. Rightly or wrongly.
wishing things were all rosy and pink doesn't make them so....down south Black rule is a failure...plain and simple.....sure a few black here and there have gone Cosby and that is wonderful but overall, it's worse boss than the old boss....way worse.
and you can't keep blaming us for that
we should work towards long term solutions insteads of self serving blame games dating back 150-400 years....I would start with black fatherhood....the lack of which is a far greater threat to all of us than the phantom of white racsim subtle or not that you seem glued to.
There were no “hot heads” sent to meet Lincoln to ask for peace. There were no “hot heads” summoned from the Virginia Peace Convention to meet with Lincoln. The only documented “hot heads” that had the power to force war were Northern governors and financiers, Gustavus Fox and Abraham Lincoln.
And your attempt to paint Lincoln as a Constitutional fundamentalist is put to the lie by Lincoln’s own, personal and documented words, (July 4th, 1861):
“I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional....whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and public necessity....”
His unconstitutional actions, though unchallenged and rationalized by him as being for the public good and appeals to God, remained what they were-violations of the Constitution.
Your commentary on any of that is irrelevant. Keep the opinion to yourself.
Yes. You make it perfectly clear what you meant and it is completely understood by what you true feelings are towards Southerners.
Davis would have had a trial by two judges and the right to the defense attorneys of his choice. Something black defendants of the 50's would have been denied. I'd say any trial of the confederate leadership would have been far more fair than any trial of Union leaders by a victorious confederacy would have been.
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