Posted on 02/17/2005 1:55:46 PM PST by quidnunc
Q: After having read many accounts of the Civil War, I still don’t understand why South Carolina fired on Ft. Sumter, galvanizing the North into war. What do you think might have happened had the South continued to let these coastal forts be manned by the Union for a longer time?
Hanson: I think conflict was inevitable, because the South had little appreciation of Northern industrial power nor of the competence of a number of formerly nondescript Union officers. The best officers of the Mexican War had joined the Confederacy and there was an erroneous general impression that all superior commanders had left the Union, and with vaunted Southern courage, a big victory or two would teach the Yankees that going into the Confederacy was simply not worth the trouble, especially for the increasingly controversial idea of emancipation. …
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Slavery was legal in the USA. Lincoln could not simply free the slaves in non-rebellious states without a Constitutional amendment.
He could, however, free the slaves in the rebellious states in his role as commander in chief. Freeing the slaves in the South helped cripple the Southern economy.
You lost, we won. DEAL with it.
Don't you love that fact that the winners always get to write the history?
Ft Pillow DID happen. You denying it puts you on a par with William Pierce and Ward Churchill when they deny the Holocaust.
It must bother you that the Lincoln Memorial is one of the most-visited monuments in the nation. It would seem that your countrymen do not agree with your views on Lincoln and his government.
It also must drive you up the wall that there is a stature of Lincoln in Richmond.
Two words
Strategic bombing
otoh, i HATE baseball and basketball! i wouldn't go see a baseball game if i was PAID to sit through one- watching paint dry is more exciting.
DALLAS COWBOYS, forever. washington DEADskins, NEVER!
free dixie,sw
I thought that, too.
I wonder if he has one of those nifty white pointy hats to go with his pointy head?
I like this quote from Forrest the most.
"Keep up the Skeer (scare)!" Which meant to never give a retreating enemy the chance to rest.
What's wrong with playing with fire?
It worked for LeMay and his B-29's in May 1945 over Tokyo...........
Ask him about Dr. Lubar at the Smithsonian.
When a "question" is framed "PLEASE don't say it wasn't 'X', it was 'X', then it's not really a question, it's an assertion. Furthermore, the person posing the "question" in this manner is not interested in learning, but in trying to "win" a debate.
Fortunately, I'm heading out of town for a few days, and won't have to witness another episode here of "sound and fury, signifying nothing". I hope everyone has fun re-opening the old wounds; I'm a bit more concerned about all those nice folks around the world planning to kill us today."
Lincoln "provoked" the rebels into firing on a US Fort?
Just like we "provoked" OBL into 9/11, huh?
Where did you learn history? from "Professor" Ward Churchill?
sorry!
I'm reading all the posts, I'll learn I promise.
imVho, almost every post of yours concerning the southand AND American Indians DRIPS with anti-dixie AND anti-Indian bias and/or RACISM.
free dixie,sw
Well, coming from New York, that's about what I would expect you to say.
furthermore, the historian's office admits that the "evidence" to the contrary was " perjury, which the officials of the government knew, or should have known, AT THAT TIME to be FALSE and/or that officers of the US Army knowingly SUBORNED perjury". (emphasis: mine)
free dixie,sw
Let's just agree to Disagree, alright. The Civil War was bad, it was very very bad. Thank Goodness it's been over for 140 years.
We are the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. States that are United, so lets start acting a little more united.
And Stand Watie, Please be GLAD the south lost- because we would not be one country.
Shhhh....don't give 'em any IDEAS!
That's your own delusional persecution complex speaking there, Watie. Just because you claim to be an Indian and I don't like you doesn't mean I don't like Indians. Find the posts where I've said such things, put them up for all to see and judge. Otherwise, apologize.
You'll get an apology when YOU apologize for what you did to MY ancestors.
What Klan chapter do you belong to?
Why do people get so upset over this?
Look at it this way, The Confederacy asserted States rights and the Union asserted we would be one nation. They both won, alright. Everyone won the Civil War.
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