Posted on 11/16/2018 2:44:55 PM PST by Jack Black
Civil division and its conquests are the true makers of America, and continue to shape its national progress—or threaten its undoing. Indeed, the very founding of the United States advanced the principle of civil conflict over all others. Our very identity, from the start, was framed as triumph over the “other.” We cast them out, like France cruelly expelled their heretic Huguenots in the 17th century. For our part, we drove out 100,000 loyalists we once counted as blood brothers. This civil war itself lasted 20 years, from 1763 to 1783, but the ensuing cold war and residual battles with Britain did not end until 1815.
By then there was another fissure in the nation. After 1815 a new cultural migration began. Young America itself split into two opposed ways of life and two increasingly bitter political identities, which fought another 20-year conflict, from 1857 to 1877. Threats of secession and nullification dominated American politics all the way to 1896 with Plessy v. Ferguson. Only the “lucky” generations, from the 1930s to the 1970s, could pretend to celebrate something like national unity. Even then, such privilege was the demesne of a single, favored political majority—completely coterminous with the prevailing liberal establishment.
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Sure, but "the United States" was first used long before the Civil War and "these United States" did not fade from usage until after Congress made "the United States" official in the early 1900s.
The Civil War had little or nothing to do with it.
Only if, like Forrest at Tupelo, he was attacking the Union supply train.
My great grandfather's regiment was not considered reliable enough for the front lines and so was assigned to protect the rear.
In one of the war's last battles they were finally moved to the front at Fort Blakely, Mobile Bay, and my great grandfather was seriously wounded in the attack, almost died of infection in a New Orleans hospital.
Thankfully he was as ornery and tough as any in those days!
I think statistically there were as many Southerners arrested by Confederates for such things as there were Northerners arrested by Lincoln's government.
“No Step On Snek!”
That would be awesome on a t-shirt.
“Trump is just postponing it for 8 years. After he’s gone it’s a sure bet.”
I sadly agree. This is but a breather to allow people to get ready, whatever that means to folks.
OK. I'm over it.
My Dad’s WWII division began its training in 1942 at Camp Forrest Tennessee.
He was so smitten with a young girl he first met in Tennessee that after the war he married her.
They raised a big family, most of whom live in the South.
Today Mom & Dad are buried side by side in Pennsylvania, just a few miles from my home.
Forrest was a complicated figure, but I admire him.
“That would be awesome on a t-shirt.”
I’ve got one.
Well that took a while.
BTW, I largely agree with the premise of the article.
FReegards
Found it on Amazon, just ordered one!
You're talking about Lee's Gettysburg campaign only, there were many others with no such orders.
But even at Gettysburg Confederates kidnapped any freed blacks they could for sale in Confederate slave markets.
They also destroyed:
"During the early days of the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign, a Virginia cavalry brigade under Brig.
Gen. Albert G. Jenkins occupied the town and burned several warehouses and Cumberland Valley Railroad structures and the bridge at Scotland."
All that was before Confederates returned in 1864 to burn the entire town.
Plus, I'll repeat, Stuart paid nothing for the wagon train loads of stuff he scarfed up in 1863 when he should have served as Lee's eyes & ears.
You can also get the velcro patches too. I had guys at the range taking pictures of my patch at the last shoot.
“I still have a soft-spot for Forrest, he let my great grandfather live when others would not have. “
Two of my greats rode with Forrest in the 10th Tennessee. The 10th started out as Napier’s Regiment.
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