Posted on 05/24/2009 6:22:51 AM PDT by kellynla
Confederate veterans can’t march in a parade, but a Kenyan born Democrat named Obama can serve as President?
Why is Obama spending an enormous amount of legal fees in keeping his birth certificate hidden?
“Why is Obama spending an enormous amount of legal fees in keeping his birth certificate hidden?”
Because Hussein is as phoney as a three-dollar-bill!
We've had this conversation before. Here's the Google map of Red Clay: Map of greater Red Clay
On the other hand, Vicksburg, Mississippi, didn't celebrate the Fourth of July until World War II. [Source: Time Magazine article from 1945]
As I've mentioned before on these threads, my Georgia inlaws despised Yankees long after the war in Georgia. I wonder if Yankee thievery like the following admission by Union Captain George Whitfield Pepper might have played a role [Source, Personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns: In Georgia and the Carolinas, by George Whitfield Pepper, published by Hugh Dunne of Zanesville, Ohio, in 1866]:
There are hundreds of these mounted men with the column and they go everywhere. Some of them are loaded down with silverware, gold coin, and other valuables. I hazard nothing in saying that three-fifths (in value) of the personal property of the country we passed through was taken.
There, fixed 'er up a little.
Lincoln commanded a million bayonets. Nobody in Europe, not even the czar of Russia, had an army that large.
Heck, it could have been in Michigan.
Kentucky
Ever since Obalama Ding Dong was elected, I fly the Bonnie Blue Flag!
Tell me something I DON’T know....:)
You just don’t get it. Confederate Soldiers were Americans too. After the war, Union & Confederate Veterans marched together hand in hand.
What a MORON!
Brother, you are knocking but there is NOBODY HOME! :)
“Confederate Soldiers were Americans too. After the war, Union & Confederate Veterans marched together hand in hand.”
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Two weeks ago, in a mental health treatment facility in Iraq, an AMERICAN soldier killed 5 AMERICAN soldiers. According to your model, both the murderer and the murdered should be equally revered.
Every time a 19th century confederate traitor loaded and aimed his weapon, his intenet was the same of any al Queada scum in the 21st century- to kill a brave and patriotic American who was defending the United States of America.
The outcome of the war is indicative of who God favored. I always side with the Almighty and the United States of America. All else can be damned.
Dixie List ping...still catching up
But there were also many of these type of criminals also operating in the wake of Confederate forces. I've read much of similar Confederate atrocities associated with the passage of Wheeler's cavalry. But the problem with the Confederate civil oppression that I've been studying is that it was done under what passed for normal peaceful community life and was unrelated to military movements. For instance, the military requirements of the CSA did not need the existence of Captain Brown's systematic extortion of Unionists in the Cleveland Tennessee region.
Now y’all know I make an effort to differentiate between the noble Confederate soldiers and the idiot stay at home politicians and secessionist chickenhawks who misused and destroyed much of who and what was best of old Dixie in behalf of their selfish interest in what was worst about old Dixie.
Certainly there were variation across the South, but there is ample proof of widespread regions of real pro-Union sentiment A more high profile example is the heroes’ welcome received by Burnside as liberators of Knoxville. It depended on local and regional sentiment. I’ve read a midwestern Union soldier’s account of the the marked contrast in citizen sentiment after crossing the Cumberland Plateau. Widespread Southern hostility was replaced by a welcome feeling of being at home among appreciative friends. A lot of southern people believed they had much more in common with the midwestern Yankee farmer/soldiers than they did with the under-worked members of the decayed aristocracy who ran the Confederacy.
Any time one of these Civil War threads pop up there are vultures educated by guilt trip the PC police lying in wait to post their anti-Sothern rant. I don't see their names on other subjects, but post a Civil War topic and here they come like clockwork.
They ignore the fact that when the South fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the war, there were eight slave states in the Union and only seven in the Confederacy. And The odds were greatly against the Confederate soldier even owning any slaves. And everyone in Gray were fuming that slave-owners in Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, the slave holding states that remained in the Union were allowed to keep their slaves. The Confederate soldiers who did not own slaves were fighting against a proportion of Union Army soldiers who had not been asked to give theirs up.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
“The 1860 census determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves. That would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves. There is no way that the continuance of slavery was the reason so many young boys left the non-slave family farm to join up with the army.”
Bears repeating!
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