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I'm A Good Old Rebel
The War of Northern Agression ^
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Posted on 10/14/2001 12:48:45 PM PDT by parsifal
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Bought a ton of books yesterday at Friends of Central Arkansas Library sale. Found this in the 50 cents "The Literature of the South" book. Southerners will git it. Put a link for the music above.parsy.
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posted on
10/14/2001 12:48:45 PM PDT
by
parsifal
To: parsifal
Right on
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posted on
10/14/2001 12:59:51 PM PDT
by
hd5574
To: parsifal
To: JMJ333
You'll want this one.
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posted on
10/14/2001 1:19:02 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: parsifal
Sounds like Osama's theme music. This Southern rat should have been thankfull the Yankees didn't hold the same view of their former enemies. Regardless of the many Northern atrocities comitted against the South in the years after the war they were treated fairly generously.
A whole heck of alot better than the South would have treated the North. Like one giant Andersonville prison camp from Kentucky to Michigan to Maine.
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posted on
10/14/2001 1:34:31 PM PDT
by
america76
To: america76
I only wish this treasonous, stinking reb had been permitted to dance to the same tune--at the end of a rope. There's already been a report that neo-Nazis want to make common cause with bin Laden. Now we can add the Lost Causers to the ranks of fanatical enemies of our constitution. Why don't you move to Afghanistan and learn Arabic? That way we can clear out the lot of you in one sweep.
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:04:09 PM PDT
by
ArcLight
To: america76
No. The South just wanted to be left alone. They would not have tried to "rule" the North. The South wanted to be a separate country. I think you are taking this way too seriously. The point was the stubborness of the Old Rebel.
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:08:44 PM PDT
by
parsifal
To: america76
The Andersonville horrors were caused mostly by Lincoln's halting of the practice of exchanging POWs. The South's logistical weakness made it impossible to feed its own forces, let alone Yankee prisoners. Some of the the Federal POW camps were as bad, without the excuse of no food and no transport that the South can claim.
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:08:57 PM PDT
by
Rifleman
To: ArcLight
Eat sh*t and die. Southrons have been loyal Americans for a dozen decades, but we do not have to pretend that the Federals were angels and the Rebs devils to please you or your like. Nor do we have to let you put our history and heritage down the memory hole.
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:13:22 PM PDT
by
Rifleman
To: parsifal
The Civil War may be raging down South, but up here in the Northland it's been over for 136 years. I have a pretty smart friend of mine who didn't know who Stonewall Jackson was until I told him . Anybody who's still interested in why they're still breathing fire down South should read "Confederates In The Attic" by Tony Horwitz.
Incidentally "the Good Old Rebel" was sung in the movie "The Long Riders" which was about the James Gang. I've played it on my guitar (even though I'm just a nasty old Yankee) because it's just too amusing.
To: ArcLight
I always liked this one:
The Battle Cry of Freedom
George F. Root
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
We are springing to the call of our brothers gone before, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! And we'll fill our vacant ranks with a million free men more, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! And although they may be poor, not a man shall be a slave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
So we're springing to the call from the East and from the West, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! And we'll hurl the rebel crew from the land we love best, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:23:11 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: parsifal
Stuborness doesn't even describe it. I know quite a few who honestly think that we are just on a 135 year break...:)
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:29:22 PM PDT
by
cactmh
To: Rifleman
My great grandfather fought for the Confederacy in the 7th Texas Calvery,Co.C. My other g. grandad also fought for the Confederacy, as did his brothers.They were good, decent, God fearing men who fought for a cause dear to their hearts.To malign them does them a great injustice.I am proud to be an American.And I am very proud of my Rebel heritage.I would have been ashamed had they not fought. The neo-nazi skin heads do the Confederate flag a great injustice.They have no right to even touch that flag let alone align it with their pathetic group.
To: ArcLight
Why don't you give us a ride, tough guy?
To: Rifleman
Yo, man. Leave my man ArcLight alone. Wanna talk Rifleman? USMC 0311, 5547, 5537.
To: driftless
That's because people in the North didn't have to live through Reconstruction.
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:31:08 PM PDT
by
cactmh
To: Rifleman
Maybee they should have used a little more land to grow food instead of cotton and tobacco to sell to the Brittish and French. Not much different than the Taliban letting Afghanis starve to grow opium poppies to finance their operations.
Then again, I suppose you do what you must to win. Without cotton and tobacco and the hope they could buy the support of the Brits and French, the south would never even have had the chance they did.
In the end it is always the guy at the bottom of the food chain who suffers most. The politicians and generals never seem to have to make any real sacrifices. In any war the fattest, most obese sack of s**t in camp is always the general.
To: Disgusted in Texas
My great-great grandfather fought for the C.S.A. I obviously never met him, however, I can tell you that my grandmother remembers him well. Southerners weren't some kind of neo-nazi people who wanted to destroy people. BTW, if it weren't for the good old solid south, we'd have a Kennedy or some other liberal ass for our President...
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:33:38 PM PDT
by
cactmh
To: ArcLight; america76
Bump to you both for your remarks! Great points!
To: ArcLight
Read the last sentence of #18 and then shut your pie hole.
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posted on
10/14/2001 2:35:49 PM PDT
by
cactmh
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