Posted on 01/07/2014 6:48:32 AM PST by BigReb555
The Georgia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans will again sponsor their annual Robert E. Lee Birthday Commemorative on Saturday January 18, 2014 at the Old Capitol Building, 201 E. Greene St., Milledgeville, Georgia.
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I should have read your post before I posted mine. Especially due to your last sentence.
Great minds and all of that!
Don’t believe the Cliff notes and Weekly Reader version of the Second American Civil War (the revolution being the first).
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You can save your patronizing attitude for others, I’ll not react to it, beyond suggesting that others may well be as well read as you.
Note that I did not make the blanket statement that slavery was THE cause of the war.
If state’s rights are among the issues causing the war, as I very simply suggested, one of those state’s rights was in fact the right to hold other human beings in bondage. And CSA soldiers was fighting for that right. It’s a pretty non controversial position.
When did the Yankee government ever do that?
I have been to Gettysburg and stood looking across that field and thought to myself, what kind of men were these who would cross that field in the open against withering fire?
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I’ll be on the Normandy coast in a few months. The same kind of men operated there.
If he went into it knowing he couldn’t win that would make him a monster.
I wondered when you would crawl out from under your rock. :-)
Nice to see you too.
Camp Grimes Co. Greys...Texas.
I’ve got my eye on you.
Sorry - I’m already married. ;’)
December 31, 1862, Lincoln connected his name to a document that many of his adherents and later apologists would gladly forget: a contract with Bernard Kock, an ambitious and unscrupulous venturer, to use federal funds to remove some five thousand black men, women, and children from the United States to a small island off the coast of Haiti. It was Lincoln's last effort at colonizing blacks outside the United States, executed only one day before he was to sign a proclamation...
“US Grant owned slaves through his wife until 1866.”
Did it from memory and thought the 13th settled it all without argument on December 18 of 1865 with recognized ratification by 27 of 36 states.....using Seward’s argument and announced date, not mine.
Dates it seems, are very easy to check and Google a powerful thing. Obsoletes my rooms of books.
The reasoned balance of cause, effect, intent and character is not so easy to google.
And obviously, nothing is without argument for cripes sake.
I am not criticizing Grant. Didn’t know the man or anybody that did. Some said before during and after he died that he was a saint. Others a drunken wife beater and opportunist.
I personally would have “friended” him and Old Abe before the upper crust Jeff Davis and Bobby Lee. But I have always been a hard liquor and swearing man myself.
No event or man can be justly framed in a “now you know” sound bite of good vs evil where good always wins and is always on one side only.
So every man who died at the Alamo was a monster?
and the very best military man to ever come from the USA.(Except maybe Nathan Bedford Forrest).
http://www.nathanbedfordforrest.net/biography.htm
Thank you for your #66.
That letter is a powerful light on an example of the political correctness/hypocrisy that is specifically designed to undermine America’s culture.
MLK deserves recognition and a place in our history but most certainly not at a higher level than our veterans who went in harm’s way and offered their lives in the defense of America. MLK may have risked quite a bit, but he did not knowingly confront those who would like to kill him.
Condolences to the missus. :-)
Well bless your heart ;’)
I am happy to agree that the issue was never “only” slavery. But then what war has ever been fought over a single issue?
There appear to be two groups of extremists on the cause of the War. One side says it was “only” about slavery, and the other that it had nothing to do with slavery.
To a very considerable extent they promote their own side by shooting down the other extreme position, thinking they have thereby proven their point.
Meanwhile, IMO any intelligent person who studies the issue will agree that slavery was one of many issues between the regions. That it was the root cause behind many of those “separate” issues. That it was the only issue that simply could not be compromised. In 1860 the least the South would have been willing to accept would require the North to go much farther than it was willing to go.
“Well bless your heart ;’)”
Let me guess, coming from your apt in Queens. :-)
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