Posted on 08/15/2020 6:00:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Was that Andersonville ???
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Location of a notorious Confederate military prison where many Yankees died from diseases rather than their combat wounds.
I’m sure that if the original slave owners could see how this all turned out they would have told the slave traders to keep their Africans.
“I’m sure that if the original slave owners could see how this all turned out they would have told the slave traders to keep their Africans.”
Spot on!! The U.S. ended up with about 10% of the slaves that were sold to the slave traders by the black tribes in Africa. The remainder went to other places around the world in much larger numbers — including the Carribian and Brazil.
Can you imagine how bad it would be if that 10% had been doubled? Even Lincoln thought about sending them back.
How about Ft. Douglas? The North’s prison camp. Equal to Andersonville.
Yes it was horrible...I felt like crying while I was there with a friend who is a member of a Grand Old Army society and had a relative imprisoned there...
Yes think about how Haiti turned out...
An interesting thing happened on Haiti and other French islands in the Caribbean during the French revolution...Guillotines were sent to those islands and the slaves were encouraged to revolt and use the machines to kill the white masters and any other people they didn’t like...the result was somewhat more gruesome and out-of-control than the homeland...
My great grandfather started out with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry. When his horse rolled on him, he switched to JAG and got the death penalty for the southern conspirators at Ft Douglas. I never read a word he wrote hating the confederates that he fought.
I do believe the majority who fought on both sides were good people who found something they believed to be honorable and put their lives on the line to support that thing. I don’t believe it was slavery. States rights was the likely common confederate ideal. And once the higher ups set a war in motion, you weren’t fighting for an ideal so much as to defend your home and your family and friends.
For the first few years, before explosives turned war into present day horror, there was a military chivalry that led to respect of the fighters on both sides. And if you read Chamberlain’s description of the surrender at Appomattox, you’ll get chills down your back for the soldiers’ honor the North awarded the South.
All of this history is lost if we continue to allow liberals to educate the young to lose the past and enthrone liberal crud as doctrine. WE have to write history and WE have to publish it. And WE have to build the social networks that allow the good and the bad of history to be discussed rationally, with some control over the type of censorship allowed.
My YouTube channel lets me censor comments on the mideast war news tapes I put up. I refuse those comments with obscenities or those that are against our troops without polite reasoning. But I’ll let people who can argue in a controlled fashion go at it together. If GOPe wants more civility, fine, let them train moderators to control discussions on social networks that WE control.
BLM is not about slavery. It’s about using any means to change the narrative of success to one of failure so that the political point of view of liberals can succeed. We need to blast apart censorship with the same fervor our ancestors brought to their own battlefields.
some of it is being rebuilt
not too far from there was a German POW camp in Van Etten
And a couple of thousand of early “parolees” from Andersonville and another POW camp, whose homeward destination was up the Mississippi, had the misfortune of embarking on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat).
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I am somewhat of a student of history, but did not know about this incident, so thanks for sending this.
The lead story in the news cycle was Lincoln’s assassination, and the ensuing manhunt.
Anything else was a mere blip, even the largest maritime disaster in US history.
“Tell that to Sherman.”
I don’t anticipate meeting the gentleman.
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