Posted on 08/27/2007 1:37:39 PM PDT by BnBlFlag
And so of course you loudly whine and, well... you lie about it.
But rational people know the difference between your lying, and what Lincoln actually said.
I'm sick of you.
No, you made it perfectly clear. I just misread it.
Best of luck with your book! A lot of people here on both sides of the discussion know a whole lot more about the Civil War than I do, and I see that some of them have answered your question. Sadly, few people today know much about history thanks to our lousy educational system.
“The Cherokee Nation: A History” by Robert J. Conley.
The brothers are okay for now, but they’re on my list!
the WBTS was about LIBERTY for dixie.
there were about 100 minor causes, but NONE approached the lust of southerners to be FREE from political/social/business/academic/financial domination by the northern ELITISTS out of DAMNyankeeland, primarily NY & new england.
face it, you've been lied to and made a fool of by the LEFTIST/fascists, out of the "poison ivy league" & "left coast" schools, who wouldn't spit on you if you caught fire. (in point of fact, such elitists ridicule & laugh AT anyone who is foolish enough to believe their KNOWING lies.)
only about 5-6% of northerners/southerners had slaves. those slave-OWNERS were extremely concerned about preservation of the "peculiar institution".
FEW other people cared a damn about either slavery or about "the plight of the slaves". they SHOULD have;they did NOT.
further, FEW people, north or south, cared enough about "some rich guy's right to have slaves" to fight a SKIRMISH over it, much less a major WAR.
this is especially true of the CSA soldiers/sailors/marines, as the AVERAGE of GROSS ASSETS of those servicemen/women was LESS than $ 25.oo US (people that poor couldn't have bought a slave, had they wanted one!). the CSA service-members fought for their city/county/parish/state, each other & for FREEDOM from a faraway central government, which they believed (CORRECTLY) was NOT acting in their informed self-interest & which was likely to become evermore intrusive into their lives.
further, the common soldier/sailor/marine of the CSA was fighting against the WEALTHY/privileged elitists everywhere. (had they won their war for FREEDOM, the "plantation aristocracy" might well been next on the "list of enemies", especially since so many of the dixie aristocrats had COLLOBORATED with the enemy during the war.)
the brave/honorable "Billy Yanks" too, were fighting for a PRINCIPLE: Preserving the Union. generally, they cared NOTHING about the "peculiar institution" OR about the slaves.
free dixie,sw
*sigh* Not even Jackson? (Rhetorical sigh).My suggestion on the biographies...what about a brief bio of the main characters at the very beginning of the book. Just a couple sentences introducing Jackson, Stuart, Lee, etc.
Thank you...
Civil War enthusiasts will know them all, and have strong opinions about them, especially having drink taken.
The general public under 40, outside the South, probably knows the names of Lee and Grant.
That is a great suggestion. And I was so disappointed by the answers I was receiving.
try reading THE REAL LINCOLN, by Tom DiLorenzo, for a TRUTHFUL re-look at the TYRANT.
should "the hilleyBEAST" win in 2008/2012 (SHUDDER!!!), perhaps wee willie klintoon will have his very own "MONSTROSITY on the Potomac".(fwiw, it doesn't take anything but MONEY to erect a memorial!)
fwiw, i've suggested that the "memorial to the tyrant" should be moved to DAMNyankeeland & out of VA or perhaps it should be turned into an artificial reef in the Chesapeake Bay, so that "DIShonest abe, the clay-footed secular saint of DAMnyankeeland" can "sleep with the fishes".
free dixie,sw
It’s not just the Civil War. Most high school grads today would have a hard time identifying James Madison or Douglas McArthur.
About the only things they know about history are a few evils attributed to America. They know we owned slaves. They know we once didn’t let women vote. They know we were “imperialists”. They know about the Japanese internment and that we dropped the bomb on two Japanese cities. They know we (ahem) invaded “Vietnam”. Etcetera, etcetera.
AFTER you've spent over 3 decades reading the actual records/documents from the period (rather than believing what someone else said), THEN come back & tell me how wrong i am.
until then, you are just another "person with an opinion". (opinions are like bellybuttons. everyone has one & they frequently stink.)
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Actually, make that Douglas MacArthur. I proved my own point! LOL! :-)
i, too, am writing 2 books (one nonfiction on the war in the Trans-Mississippi on "private actions on behalf of the CSA" & one "science fiction/alternative history" on the SECOND war between Blue & Gray. it is set in the period 2011-2015AD.).
if i can ever get everyone "well" at once in my family, perhaps i can finish one/BOTH!
once more, CONGRADS!!!!
free dixie,sw
my mother used to say, "IF the 2 of you wake the baby up, i;'m going to MURDER you!!!"
free dixie HUGS,sw
Your second paragraph is exactly how they understand our history. I had one fellow student tell me that the only terrorists in the world were Americans. I wanted to slap her flat.
i frequently get asked to talk to HS & college students (i sometimes teach a course or two on AI culture/the WBTS at our local community college, since i became semiretired.)about the WBTS from the "southern prospective".
SADLY, many students have NO idea WHEN the war was, WHAT it was about and/or WHO any of the leaders were.(even lincoln is just "the guy on the $5.oo bill". some don't even know that he was POTUS!)
fwiw, i "lay the blame" on the "pubic screwl edumakashun sistim" for their IGNORANCE. (i would bet a month's salary that MORE high school "students" know that britiney spears doesn't wear underpants than who GEORGE WASHINGTON was!)
NOTE to ALL: IF you have school-age children, get to the school & find out WHAT they are "teaching" your child. you will be HORRIFIED!!!
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
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