Posted on 07/02/2013 7:59:19 AM PDT by slumber1
1-3 July marks the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, the battle that many historians cite as a key turning point in the US civil war, which left nearly 50,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead, wounded or captured on Pennsylvania farmland.
In 1913, on the 50th anniversary of the battle, the same fields played host to the largest ever gathering of civil war veterans, where former soldiers from both sides – many in their 70s – returned to commemorate the war
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I have news for ya pal - the constitution may be dented but it ain't dead (except for malcontents like you).
There, that's accurate now.
Deocrats; slavers then, slavers now.
Not to mention crapping all over their own version during the time they claimed to be a country.
A better question is what those veterans would think if they could see the USA as it is NOW. The Yankees would be unable to lift their heads, a state of total shame. The Southerners would be spitting mad.
Admit it. If you had been there you would have spent your whole time taking rock shots at every Yankee you could find, and telling everyone within earshot how you hated the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and everything to do with the country.
1913 isn’t 2013.
Why should we believe you would be any different then than you are now?
I am sure a lot of CSA veterans, that lived thru the joyous reconstruction, had a lot better things to do than traipse up to to Gettysburg in 1913. Why do you think the Southern side is so underrepresented?
It is ironic that the year 1913 gave us the 16th and 17th amendments and the 50th reunion of G-burg. Ironic to say the least.
it is still a civil war no matter what you call it.
A rose by any other name still has thorns.
The people of Atlanta Ga in 1864 didn’t think it was to “civil”.
The first time I ever heard that entire speech was when it was delivered with amazing sincerity by a member of the Revolutionary War Veterans Association, at a quiet shooting range in the woods.
Sore losers?
When was that picture taken?
Au contraire, mon frere. A civil war is fought within a country where two or more factions seek to gain control of the government of that country. With the War of Secession, the South was not at all interested in gaining control of the US government. They simply wanted to be left alone as they were promised they could in the event they no longer wanted to be part of the United States.
Calling this war a 'civil war' would be comparable to calling any war of independence a 'civil war'. The Commonwealth of Virginia sought peaceful independence from the constraints of the Washington-based central government. At no time did they seek to gain control of said government.
Sometime between the end of the civil war and Custer’s fateful trip west.
Heck, the Democrats were slave owners in the North, too!
“I have news for ya pal - the constitution may be dented but it ain’t dead (except for malcontents like you). “
That’s a rather stupid statement to have made since I don’t control it and can’t kill it.
The Constitution is dead and Lincoln and the USSC set the Stage to do it. Name a single right that you have left. Hell, you just lost the 5th last week.
Don’t know— if so, then it was good for VA.
They avoided the later mineral rights cartel of the Rockefellers who still own most of underground WV. Everybody pays royalties to them (even the other Senator who is/was a lobbyist for coal... and yet stays a dem- amazing). That and pushed the lib gun agenda in a state where people have a long tradition of self-defense cause they need it). Jay Rockefeller whined about sequestration— because of the impact on airports air traffic control etc. Largely because his private massive estate in WV has an airstrip with NO traffic but him and his “lodge” guests and a full time Federal air traffic control person in the tower. For real. WV is a feudal state.
I still have the right to tell you what a loser you are ;-)
(Is this a great country or what?!)
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