Posted on 03/07/2016 2:38:12 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
GETTYSBURG, PA (WHTM/CNN) - Tensions ran high during a Confederate flag rally in Pennsylvania this weekend.
A Southern heritage group held what it calls Confederate Flag Day in Gettysburg, PA, but there were plenty of vocal opponents to the event.
The flag has 13 stars, three stripes and two very different meanings.
The refrain is familiar. Supporters such Mark Landree, executive director of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, says it's about history. Opponents like Christina Hansen only see hate.
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He is a crazy little man and needs/craves attention, don’t give it to him.
Right back at you, Confederate. Ignorant? Only an idiot , a racist or both would support the Confederacy. Now that is ignorance personified.
My ancestors. Took arms for there country, against a out right invasion. Of a war, they did not want but was forced upon by the Marxist Republicans, who sought Empire. From the wealth of the South
The south open fire because major Anderson, and his ilk planned to lay sige. To Charleston, a ship carrying extra supplies. And, soldiers had been chased away. Multiple times Rust bucket and Pearidge both have posted time and time again, on what went down
The south was fighting against an encroaching government. If you like government dictating every fact of your like, move to North Korea or Cuba. Effing troll.
Curious to hear what Conservative princes you eapouse.
I am with you and very content if I become an anachronism.
yep, Anderson with 120 men, including 13 musicians was going to lay siege to Charleston. OBTW. Andersons artillery fuses were in the hands of the Charleston Confederates. Some siege that would have been.
The attack on Pearl Harbor prompted Winston Churchill to say, "At this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!....England would live; Britain would live; The Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end, no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care….Many disasters, immeasurable cost, and tribulation lay ahead, but there was no doubt about the end. I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins. I thought of a remark which Edward Grey had made to me more than thirty years before that the United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate. Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful".
My favorite battlefield monument at Shiloh is the very moving Tennessee Monument. It is a sculpture that depicts a wounded or dying unconscious young Confederate soldier whose hand is slipping away from a flag staff he had been carrying. The flag staff bears a Stars and Bars flag. Another Confederate soldier is kneeling behind him and taking the flag staff with both hands. A third Confederate soldier is standing guard beside them looking out in the distance with his rifle at the ready to protect them.
I have posted a picture of the monument before on TinyPic, but it has been removed. It probably offended somebody like the lady in the article above. I won't try to post it on TinyPic again. I'll do something better. Here is a link to dozens of photos of the monument:
PFL
Crazy? Thanks General. Coming from some little ignorant troglodyte like you that’s a compliment. There’s a big word for you General, ‘’troglodyte’’, go look it up. Get an education about who and what your are.
The Brits. Always willing to fight to the last American.
They opened the ball first. Here’s a question for you, a simple yes or no: If the South had won the war would it have freed the slaves?
Just as I thought. You can’t answer the question I asked. Tells me all I need to know. You call yourself a conservative and yet you come to a conservative website venerating a bunch of Southern Democrats.
Winston Churchill commented concerning American entry into WW II that victory was then assured, because our Civil War demonstrated the tenacity required to defeat the Nazis.
No fuses? One wonders how Anderson was later able to fire all those canon balls at the Confederates for hours and hours in April.
On December 31, 1861, Major Anderson in Fort Sumter sent the US Government a communique that said "[We] can command this harbor as long as our Government wishes to keep it." [Source: "Days of Defiance" by Maury Klein, page 192]. On January 9, 1861 Major Anderson threatened South Carolina Governor Pickens that he [Anderson] would block any ship within range of Fort Sumter's guns from entering Charleston Harbor [Link].
This threat was made after South Carolina had fired on the commercial ship, the Star of the West, which had tried that same day to sneak 200 armed US soldiers hiding below decks with three months provisions and ammunition into Fort Sumter. The Star of the West had been warned off by a picket ship that fired across the Star of the West as it started to enter the harbor. The Star ignored the warning and continued on into the harbor only to be hit later by a couple of shots. It then turned around and left the harbor. It scraped bottom on the bar as it was leaving.
Governor Pickens replied that President Buchanan had been warned that an attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter would be viewed as an act of hostility. Pickens further said to Anderson that the state would defend its waters and repel such an attempt. Anderson didn't follow through on his threat to fire on ships in the harbor.
Yes they would have Slavery. Was already a dieing institute, in the South given the means of advancement. Of farm technology, the cost effectiveness. And, Religious reveals taking place in the South Slavery. Would have died out easily
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