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Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150
hosted ^ | Apr 2 | CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN

Posted on 04/02/2011 7:53:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono

A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official.

Who would be chosen "Person of the Year, 1861"?

Five historians had made impassioned nominations, and the audience would now decide.

Most anywhere else, the choice would be obvious. Who but Abraham Lincoln? But this was a vote in the capital of the rebellion that Lincoln put down, sponsored by a museum dedicated to his adversary. How would Lincoln and his war be remembered in this place, in our time?

A century and a half have passed since Lincoln's crusade to reunify the United States. The North and the South still split deeply on many issues, not least the conflict they still call by different names. All across the bloodstained arc where the Civil War raged, and beyond, Americans are deciding how to remember....

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anniversary; civilwar; dixie; militaryhistory
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To: central_va


21 posted on 04/02/2011 8:35:56 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: central_va

22 posted on 04/02/2011 8:36:11 AM PDT by DryFly
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To: JoeProBono

Nice horse, stolen from a Southerner I am sure. :)


23 posted on 04/02/2011 8:39:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: JoeProBono

I had a friend from Louisiana who swore the South was going to do it again.


24 posted on 04/02/2011 8:40:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: JoeProBono
I my humble opinion, the biggest blunder the Confederates made was the infamous Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863 against the Union positions on Cemetery Ridge. You'd think the very able Confederate commanders would have figured out the lessons of the Battle of Bunker Hill (the British lost over 1,000 soldiers in taking Breed's Hill) and NOT do a direct frontal attack on enemy position that had a major height and sight advantage over the attackers.
25 posted on 04/02/2011 8:43:26 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ak4vjiNzw


26 posted on 04/02/2011 8:49:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

bttt


27 posted on 04/02/2011 8:50:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: RayChuang88

Actually, IMO Pickett’s Charge was so devastating to both sides it prevented Meade from pursuing Lee across the Potomac.


28 posted on 04/02/2011 8:54:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Happy Rain

Would this be the RE Lee who impregnated his and his father in law’s female slaves so he could profitably sell the female children to brothels? That fellow?

Tells us more about you than it does about the times 150 years ago.


29 posted on 04/02/2011 8:57:55 AM PDT by donmeaker ("Get off my lawn." Clint Eastwood, Green Ford Torino)
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To: JoeProBono

I look at the War Between the States as the beginning of our end as a country. It marked the death of the country that our Founders started, and the birth of the country that is in serious decline today.


30 posted on 04/02/2011 9:00:16 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: central_va

Most of our problems were instituted by Southern Democrats working with FDR to reinstitute slavery. Perhaps we can have a new birth of states rights, so just as individual states banned slavery then, individual states can ban the new slavery now.

The southern states rebelled because they were opposed to states rights to ban slavery


31 posted on 04/02/2011 9:01:35 AM PDT by donmeaker ("Get off my lawn." Clint Eastwood, Green Ford Torino)
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To: Lees Swrd

The official name of the conflict was ‘The War of the Great Rebellion”.


32 posted on 04/02/2011 9:02:44 AM PDT by donmeaker ("Get off my lawn." Clint Eastwood, Green Ford Torino)
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To: central_va

Yellow Tavern


33 posted on 04/02/2011 9:04:14 AM PDT by donmeaker ("Get off my lawn." Clint Eastwood, Green Ford Torino)
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To: donmeaker

I live about 15 miles from there.


34 posted on 04/02/2011 9:15:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

‘a great slaveholding Confederacy, stretching its arms over a territory larger than any power in Europe possesses’’- Francis Pickens, govenor of South Carolina.


35 posted on 04/02/2011 9:18:16 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: donmeaker
Would this be the RE Lee who impregnated his and his father in law’s female slaves so he could profitably sell the female children to brothels? That fellow?

You want to back down on this apparent psychotic talk or back it up with some facts?

36 posted on 04/02/2011 9:19:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Happy Rain

Good guys usually win. The South lost. Thank God.


37 posted on 04/02/2011 9:19:18 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: central_va

It did good enough 150 years ago, didn’t it? It beat the CSA.


38 posted on 04/02/2011 9:21:31 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: jmacusa
Good guys usually win. The South lost. Thank God.

I agree Good Guys usually do win and the South lost. But why would you thank God for such a horrible outcome?

39 posted on 04/02/2011 9:21:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Who swore what? That the South was going to get it’s ass kicked again?


40 posted on 04/02/2011 9:23:00 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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