Posted on 02/11/2011 8:45:39 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
Yes 56%
No 44%
Keep in mind, the role of Democrats and Republicans in 1866 were reversed from today. Then, the Republicans were Carpetbaggers, disenfranchising those who had fought for the Confederacy and trying to ensure a strictly black government in the South.
Confederate poll FReep: 58% yes.
Sherman’s tactics, as harsh as they were, served a military purpose. Forrest’s purposes were terroristic, pure and simple, a sadistic and savage pleasure in murder.
“Arguably the best Calvaryman on either side.”
What’s your opinion of Wade Hampton as a cavalryman?
He was good, damn good.
Forrest I feel was a better commander, in that he built up his own regiment, and after Bragg took his men, he built up his own brigade from scratch. Hampton never had to build up his own brigade, he wasn’t promoted to Lieutenant General until close to the end of the war, serving mostly under Stuart.
It’s a pity Hampton was under Stuart, and wasn’t present at Gettysburg. Confederacy command in the west wasn’t strong at all, except for Forrest and Hood, which is a shame because the West decided the war.
Some would interpret NBF tactics as having the will to achieve Victory in battle.
When he was forming terrorist squads after the war was over?
The GOP was never the racist party that the Democrats were. Go on up to the 60’s and Bull Connor. See Robert Byrd.
Are you saying he road with Bill Quantrill.
Sherman was not terroristic? His troops were not sadistic and were under tight control at all times?
I know about the guerilla war. I’m from MO and one of Quantrill’s raiders was captured at an indian camp on my property, according to local lore.
It was an ugly war. The union was preserved. Don’t try to take our heroes from us, and we won’t take yours.
Excuse me. I was unaware I said anything about Sherman. Take your remarks and direct them elsewhere.
democrats have always been democrats.
Apparently according to some here he was the driving force behind the Klan, but it was a “kinder, gentler” Klu Klux Klan that only planted roadside flowers, picked up trash, and read newspapers to the residents at the old folks home...;-)
Excuse me. You were silent concerning the union hero.
So very true. Read the testimony from the congressional investigations: the Klansmen of Reconstruction were a bunch of murderous terrorists who sought to overturn what they could not accomplish on the battlefield or at that ballot box: The perpetual subjugation of black Americans.
His men at Fort Pillow, like the Nazis of Malmedy, the bombers of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, and the hijackers of Flight 77, all have on thing in common: they murdered innocent American servicemen in cold blood.
I guess, judging by the Klan apologists here, since they were black American servicemen it doesn’t really count as an atrocity.
No worries, though, if the Forrest license plate is torpedoed, you can always lobby for a James Earl Ray one.
What are you talking about?
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