Posted on 07/24/2015 2:30:32 PM PDT by the scotsman
The Yankees didn’t have balls to hang any Confederate.
Thanks for mentioning it. I must make a pilgrimage.
If this had taken place in any other country other than America, The Southerners as the Vanquished, would have been subject to horrific Punishments.
Think about what happens if you were on the Losing Side of an African Bush War, The Japanese Shogun Wars in the late 1800's.
Horrible things.
But not here, Not in America. We needed to the United States Again.
In the War there were Heroes, Smugglers, Traitors and Rebels and everything in between.
A Good Act does not Wash out the Bad, Or the Bad Act the Good.
But Cleaner ways don't win wars.
No need to say it it was pretty clear. Why don't you go over to Memphis I hear they need a few more grave robbers. Maybe you could run around with Forrests skull like a sadistic voodoo witch doctor.
Damn Android!
I say these things NOT because I hate the Confederates.
Well, that ruins the point I was trying to make.
Let's try this.
I say these things NOT because I hate the Confederates.
If this had taken place in any other country other than America, The Southerners as the Vanquished, would have been subject to horrific Punishments.
Think about what happens if you were on the Losing Side of an African Bush War, The Japanese Shogun Wars in the late 1800's.
Horrible things.
But not here, Not in America. We needed to the United States Again.
In the War there were Heroes, Smugglers, Traitors and Rebels and everything in between.
A Good Act does not Wash out the Bad, Or the Bad Act the Good.
But Cleaner ways don't win wars.
I think reconstruction would have been a whole lot more favorable to the south had Lincoln lived. His death brought a lot of people to power who sought nothing more than revenge.
Few in the south hailed Boothe as a hero both because his was a cowardly act and because they knew it would bring harsh treatment on the south.
I knew what you meant by the tone of the rest of your comment.
I should leave making this point about "With malice toward none, with charity for all" to you :P
Lincoln would have shipped African-Americans to the Caribbean and Liberia. So yes it would have gone real smooth. /sarc
Apology accepted.
No. 5 of American Presidents. A hero in every way.
Keep in mind that Eric Foner, perhaps the leading historian of the Reconstruction today and who is quoted extensively here, is a Marxist.
A drunken, corrupt, incompetent doesn’t look so bad after Jimmy, Billy, Barry and the current crop in Congress.
After the Siege of Corinth Grant stayed at the Whitfield Mansion and his wife, Julia Dent, joined him. Late Summer after the fall of Memphis Julia enjoyed the furniture at the mansion so much she took most of it home to Galena, Illinois. Confederate cavalry overtook Julia between Corinth and Memphis and her wagons of furniture but didn't know who or what they had come across and Ms. Grant did not tell them who she was. The Confederates thought that she was a woman fleeing the Federal Army. The Confederate Cavalryman that wrote about the experience also thought her to be one homely woman.
I stopped reading after the author stated that you had to go to LBJ to find a person who had done as much for blacks. Is he insane? Everything LBJ did was to destroy the black family and the chances of blacks being successful.
Except that the original manuscript is in the Library of Congress and can be compared to the final book, and its style is perfectly consistent with his letters, orders and reports.
Why bother?
The Nazis had lots of Victory parades. That must make them the good guys or something.
Grant was indeed a great man. Much of his best work was done reconstructing the South.
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