Posted on 01/05/2018 12:07:18 PM PST by DoodleDawg
To quote you. Not necessarily.
The standards for paperwork were a great deal looser then.
They didn’t fire on the ships. The Charleston batteries fired on United States Property, i.e. Fort Sumter.
It stopped becoming US property, the minute SC seceded.
And I suppose that firing on British troops on Lexington Green was wrong as well. At least the South seceded before the first shot was fired.
The State of South Carolina deeded the island that Fort Sumter was built on to the United States Government in perpetuity. It was not South Carolina property.
If they would have stayed in the United States, the Morrill tariff would not have become law.
Lincoln got the war he wanted.
a slave could not enlist in the Confederate Army. He could serve with his master in that army if his master so chose.
It must be a lonely and miserable existence to hold such rancor for your nation (I assume that you are American). Is there somewhere else that you would rather be?
So did Jefferson Davis. “War is the solution our enemies have chosen, and I say lets give them all the want” quote by William T. Sherman
I love my nation. I served her in Uniform in both the Military and Civilian worlds for over 25 years. Can you say the same? So now it’s unpatriotic to criticize a President? May want to take a look around FR. It is my firm belief that once slavery died a natural death, as it would around the world, the Confederacy and the Union would have once again become unified, much like Germany. More than half a million soldiers died and an untold number of civilians did as well needlessly. Lincoln has been turned into some kind of champion for civil rights, anyone who looks at his writing and ideas for the position of the freed slave in post war American society, will see that he was as “racist” as the men he made war on. All over the South, we see the radicals tearing down and dishonoring our ancestors, it is simply a matter of time before you see the guns turned upon yours.
You don't act like you do. You are entirely welcome to trash-talk whoever you wish. I am entirely welcome to call you out for your sillier expressions.
That's part of what makes this nation so great!
Find me an example of Southern troops violence toward the Northern civilian population during their time in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Sherman laid waste to Georgia in a manner benefiting his drunken character.
Fixed it for you.
My dislike is confined to Lincoln and Sherman alone. Although my Granny hated Benjamin Butler due to the treatment of her relatives in New Orleans, wish I would have kept that chamber pot with his picture in the bottom....
You’re getting your lost causer memes mixed and muddled. It was Grant who was supposed to be the drunk, not Sherman.
There’s that unbridled rancor again...
Your confusing Grant with Sherman. Sherman seldom drank.
Davis didn’t order the call up of 75,000 men to invade the North.
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