To: Texas Fossil
"The Civil War was the US’s greatest tragedy. For both North & South."
Lt. Thomas Chamberlain: "Where'd you get captured?"
Confederate Prisoner: "Railroad cut just west of Gettysburg town. Wasn't a pretty sight. Many a good boy lost a young and promising life. Some were blue, some were grey."
From the movie 'Gettysburg' (1993)
23 posted on
07/03/2012 4:28:51 PM PDT by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
The result of that war that was positive was: it advanced the settling of Texas by at least 75 years.
They simply wanted to be left alone to live their lives in peace. Still do.
27 posted on
07/03/2012 4:45:56 PM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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