Posted on 04/30/2019 4:06:09 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
You have a good point about states’ rights versus an ever-expanding federal tyranny, but the odds of a Confederate sympathizer decapitating you because you drew a cartoon of him are really low.
Neither have any Sons Of The South ever flown a plane into skyscrapers.
I cannot emphasize enough, that we now face a greater, looming, *current* threat.
I lose no sleep at all over insurgent Rebels gaining elected office.
When I’m out shopping, somebody wearing a gray kepi on their head is not the headwear that makes my blood run cold.
Savvy?
:)
In 1980, I dated a direct descendant of McClellan, on his mother’s side.
McClellan, was in fact, his middle name, due to the naming practices of southerners.
He was a Democrat, as was his entire family, and he had a black ‘mammy’ as a kid.
*edit: Father’s side.
Son was LMP II.
Merritt is one of my favorite Generals that I’ve followed through the years. I’ve got his now out-of-print Biography written by Don Alberts (circa 1980’s).
He never got any attention because of Custer, but his career was about 1000% more successful.
Farnsworth only got to wear his star for 4 days. He was killed in a suicidal assault ordered by Judson Kilpatrick after Pickett’s failed charge.
John Buford is a 2nd Dragoons vet - but was not at Bull Run.
“...John Buford is a 2nd Dragoons vet - but was not at Bull Run. ...”
I should say he wasn’t killed at Bull Run. Buford was a hero of the 1st day at Gettysburg.
It’d probably help everybody to go back & re-read what started the stupid conversation to begin with.
The question was about Lee being a Good vs. Great General.
I said he was good, but not great and that he’d have been great if he’d conquered the North and absorbed them into the CSA. As it has been said (over & over) - not likely a scenario and impossible to accomplish.
That said, the South did have offensive tendencies and the lie said about the South trying to fight a so-called defensive war can easily be debunked by multiple campaigns in Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri - the border states. The western territories like Arizona and New Mexico. Not to mention the entire Gettysburg campaign.
A little reading comprehension goes a long way.
He was a top notch cavalry commander. Probably was the first to come up with the “mounted infantry” concept, where the troops would dismount to fire their repeating Spencer rifles to create chaos for Rebel infantry.
yep yep !
Slavery might not have been THE reason for the war, but the war, as its outcome, and the assassination of Lincoln, brought the end of slavery.
Yup...shoulda fought taking that flag down.
Excellent article. Thanks!
At least you have finally conceded the concrete historical fact that the Slave States seceded so that they could keep all the profits produced by slaves. That’s a good first step, man.
Have you gotten around to the Cornerstone Speech yet?
You are right, of course. But for my part, I am waging a battle for historical accuracy. My agenda is to never see one scrap of American History go by the wayside. As far as passing on our shared heritage in the USA, I see a distortion of the truth as being equally as bad as tampering with any historic monument. I am a proponent of Michael Savage’s definition of a nation as being “Borders, language and culture”. And I see history as being in the “culture” category. As a Northerner, when I returned from the Centennial celebration at Gettysburg in 1963 (I saw Eisenhower), I wore a grey kepi. Recently I gave a young nephew a birthday gift of two kepi’s: one blue, one grey. I understand that just another tired old Civil War thread would seem to you that we are just fiddling while Rome burns, but to me it is an opportunity to reinforce our common heritage,and to correct inaccuracies where I see falsehoods being promoted. We are under attack on all fronts.
No, it doesn’t seem like that at all, to me.
I’ve had 20 years of arguing the point on FR but currently, I’m up to my pink ass in illegals and scary people wearing NOI hats in the stores.
There’s a funny little plaque that says “Though she be small, she is fierce”.
However, as fierce as I may be, I am yet, still very small.
:)
I wish for the days of history classes as I knew them.
Facts were stated, dates were given, no editorials allowed.
I live near Antietam, where all the “historical plaques” were removed and replaced with ones that consistently refer to the Southerners as “enemies”, “invaders” and such.
They used to simply say “Confederates” with the appropriate historical info but now, it’s all rewritten to make it sound like bloodthirsty, pillaging Huns were here, instead.
I don’t go there anymore.
Bad for my blood pressure.
Soon there will be nothing left on walls but MLK Jr and Mo.
Thanks for the reminder. These WBTS threads have a tendency to drift from OP to people’s favorite “stalking points”. I do occasionally find gems hidden in the dirt.
Do you suppose that this means that the Washington Post will be required to confess their sins and change their name? LoL
My heart has to go out to Lee when I know that on his deathbed he was back in battle and calling out to JEB Stuart. And Stonewall Jackson’s last words, “let us cross this river and rest in the shade of yonder trees”. Heart wrenching stuff, even for this yankee.
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