Posted on 04/12/2010 12:12:09 PM PDT by wolfcreek
Based on the hundreds of e-mails, Facebook comments and Tweets I've read in response to my denunciation of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's decision to honor Confederates for their involvement in the Civil War -- which was based on the desire to continue slavery -- the one consistent thing that supporters of the proclamation offer up as a defense is that these individuals were fighting for what they believed in and defending their homeland.
In criticizing me for saying that celebrating the Confederates was akin to honoring Nazi soldiers for killing of Jews during the Holocaust, Rob Wagner said, "I am simply defending the honor and dignity of men who were given no choice other than to fight, some as young as thirteen."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
People that do that will not lack for company.
Guerrilla warfare as it refers to the American Revolution stands in contrast to the traditional type of fighting usually practiced by the British, who fought face-to-face in an open field in a European style called “linear tactics”: two armies would face one another at less than a hundred yards in tight formations, three ranks deep, firing volley after volley. As they shot, they moved closer together, often closing the fight with a bayonet charge as one force drove the other from the field.
Guerilla warfare was used at Lexington and Concord in April 1775,with the skirmishes that started the fighting. At first the colonial militiamen were in linear formation. As the British force retreated to Boston, the colonists, armed with their own civilian weapons, sniped at the Brits from behind fences and trees rather than confronting the “regulars” in formal lines of battle. With such guerilla tactics, the militiamen killed and wounded more British soldiers than British soldiers killed and wounded Americans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
It varies between what is seen by the terrorized and who’s terrorizing.
In Obama land, we are the terrorists.
Now you're just making up stuff. The confederates paid alright, but they paid exclusively in confederate money, which was good as toilet paper and not much more.
Specific officers were assigned to levy requisitions on each town, hamlet, and farm, detailing specific quantities of particular products which were to be taken under penalty of retribution. An enormous amount of material was seized, including foodstuffs, cattle, medicine, clothing, horse furniture and other supplies, No horse were permitted to slip from the quartermaster's grasp, and literally thousands were seized. All goods taken were paid for in Confederate currency. Those refusing to cooperate or concealing goods found their goods seized, in return for a claim receipt against the Confederate goverment. In practical terms there was little difference, as both the money and the receipts were worthless paper in Pennsylvania, and not much more valuable in the Confederacy.--Albert A. Nofi, The Gettysburg Campaign, 1994
Being openly naive: Are you really a black person?
Hmm.
Mouse kangaroo, I thought secession was unlawful?
Just more Unionist hypocrisy! How did West Virginia come about?
Naive? Care to explain?
For ten long years the North/South argued until the first shots were fired.
How long will it take today.
Ah. So that's what a stunned silence sounds like on the Internet. (Snork!)
Of course it's a silly answer. It's a silly question.
Well are you black?
No. Again care to explain.
I know full well that you are an intelligent person.
Firing a couple rounds from Sumter does not *even* equate flying airplanes into the twin towers.
The two infinitely disparate acts should not even be mentioned in the same sentence.
Mere intention *alone* should utterly preclude it.
This comment....
“In Obama land, we are the terrorists”
Most salient point of entire thread.
I was hoping we’d eventually get there. <):p>
So then your problem is not with Sherman's tactics, it's that he used them against the confederacy?
How about the U.S. and U.K. air campaigns in World War II. Cities leveled, civilians killed, private property destroyed in both Germany and Japan. War crimes or legitimate war tactics?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.