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Posted on 09/15/2016 7:40:41 AM PDT by Loud Mime
California ping, Please?
For those of you who don’t know, this tea party group is named after the intersection of the two freeways that join near our venue. We are one of the largest tea party groups in California, averaging 200 people per meeting. Our biggest audience was almost 500 people who came to listen to Dinesh D’Souza.
Our pitch is: We believe in our Constitution, Prudent Government and Education.
With the exception of this upcoming concert, each meeting has a presentation on our Constitutional Heritage.
What fun!
What part did california play in the war between the states?
Do they play “Lorena?”
You can’t say Civil War.
Will it be in Spanish?
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California sided with the Union, but most Southern Californians sympathized with the South. However, Southern Californians had other things on their minds besides war. Massive floods in 1862 were followed by a severe drought that devastated the cattle industry, which dominated Southern California's economy at the time.
In 1862, the war came perilously close to California when the Confederate Army came within about 80 miles of the border, briefly making contact with Union troops somewhere near what is now Dateland, Ariz. The westernmost land battle of the war was fought at Picacho Peak, about 200 miles east of the border, just west of Tucson.
I put that on my calendar.
“California’s involvement in the American Civil War included sending gold east, recruiting volunteer combat units to replace regular forces in territories of the Western United States, maintaining and building numerous camps and fortifications, suppressing secessionist activity (many of these secessionists went east to fight for the confederacy) and securing the New Mexico Territory against the Confederacy”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_in_the_American_Civil_War
“The westernmost land battle of the war was fought at Picacho Peak, about 200 miles east of the border, just west of Tucson.”
With a total of two dozen combatants the battle is better described as a skirmish.
Shiloh, Cold Harbor or Gettysburg, it certainly wasn't!
Somewhere I read that the reenactments of it have more participants that were in the battle.
They prohibited Lorena because it made the reenactors homesick.
Quite so!
Several California place names originated during the war. Miners in the vicinity of Lone Pine celebrated the success of the CSS Alabama by naming their claims' location "The Alabama Hills."
Not to be outdone, after the sinking of the Alabama by the USS Kearsarge, miners near Independence named their claims the "Kearsarge Mine" and the mining district became the "Kearsarge Mining District".
Soon the pass to the mines became "Kearsarge Pass", the 12,000'+ mountain became "Kearsarge Peak", and the mining camp became "Kearsarge City".
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