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The Civil War in color: A world in black and white brought to life
Daily Mail ^ | February 2, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 02/02/2015 7:36:34 PM PST by rockrr

Some 150 years since Abraham Lincoln outlawed slavery in the U.S., a collection of rare Civil War-era photographs have been brought to life through painstaking colorization.

February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing by President Lincoln of a resolution which became the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and abolished slavery.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: civilwar; civilwarphotos; wbts
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Now that is a sockdolager for sure! Kudos to Mr. Bubba Ho-Tep.


41 posted on 02/02/2015 10:08:06 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

would they have been so pale? Since they were out in the sun a lot they would be tanned methinks


42 posted on 02/02/2015 11:33:04 PM PST by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: central_va

Lol

As much as I’d like to blame goober

Yankees took most pics and they were verboten to publish pics that made the war more difficult at home


43 posted on 02/02/2015 11:35:53 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: central_va

Lol

As much as I’d like to blame goober

Yankees took most pics and they were verboten to publish pics that made the war more difficult at home


44 posted on 02/02/2015 11:36:01 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; Pelham

None of the founders would have been elected either

Today you have to be very quick tongued and purty and have a train load of cash

I notice how young so many are....even flag officers


45 posted on 02/02/2015 11:39:33 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: jmacusa

The United States Colored Troops fielded 178,000. The number of slaves counted in the 1860 census was 3,900,000. That’s around 5%.


46 posted on 02/02/2015 11:39:55 PM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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To: yarddog

Technically the EP freed slaves in southern areas not under Federal control

Border states and southern areas under Union occupation were exempted

They did not want blacks freed where they still needed them under a firm hand or what hell to do with them

Funny how the Parse was in use even then....politicians are what they are

And the myth of history runs with it

I wonder how Obama will be excused away given his specialness


47 posted on 02/02/2015 11:45:43 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: Reddy

I’m not a Lincoln worshiper but I sure don’t think he was ugly inside

It was a simmering regional conflict with roots preceding our founding which continues today with many causes and players and consequences

Lincoln was just one of many players on the stage in which the cream of our nation died so we could end up where we are now

Pretty sad really.....all that for the sorry excuse our cultural panorama is today

We are poised for far worse than 1861-77

and we let it happen

Just like last go around

But anyhow....great pics....these are the best colorized I’ve seen


48 posted on 02/02/2015 11:56:10 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

More English and Irish looking

Just check roster surnames

95%


49 posted on 02/02/2015 11:57:48 PM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: jmacusa
Lincoln is a damn sight better looking than the metrosexual queer currently stinking up The White House.

Not all Illinois lawyers are created equal!

50 posted on 02/03/2015 12:01:03 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: Pelham

Damn lucky at any per centage considering the times.


51 posted on 02/03/2015 2:50:47 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The officer sitting down on the right of the photo is Wesley Merritt. He would become a brigadier General in June of 1863. He remained in the army after the war and ended his military career as a Major General and the first Governor General of the Philippines.


52 posted on 02/03/2015 3:23:30 AM PST by X Fretensis (IW)
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To: wardaddy

Its not that Lincoln didn’t want to free the slaves in MO,KY,MD, or DE. He had not Constitutional authority to do so. The 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision by the Supreme Court specifically stated that the Federal Government had not authority to interfere with slavery in any state where it was legal. Lincoln spent considerable time and energy during the war to try an persuade these four states to outlaw slavery. The only state to do so was Maryland in Oct 1864.


53 posted on 02/03/2015 3:32:26 AM PST by X Fretensis (IW)
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To: yarddog
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the Slaves in the South which were under U.S. Control.

From his standpoint they were still part of the country so Lincoln did free slaves in the U.S., albeit not all of it.

For instance Ulysses Grant did not free his until the 13th amendment.

That's not true. Grant freed is one slave in 1859 and the Dent family slaves were freed or had run off by 1864.

54 posted on 02/03/2015 3:43:41 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: PistolPaknMama
No it did not. It emancipated zero. He had no jurisdiction in the South because the South had severed ties with the Union. It was another country. Why didn't he also free the slaves held by the Yankees in the north?

If you had any understanding of the EP, or the Constitution, you would not be asking that question.

1. The Union did not recognize the South as another country. It saw them only as an illegal insurrection.

2. During an insurrection, the government has the right to seize property of insurrectionists that is used to further the insurrection.

3. Under the Constitution, slaves were legally regarded as property. Therefore, the government had the right to take that property and dispose of it as they saw fit. The EP directed the military to free that slave property.

4. The EP could not legally seize property in areas of the country that were not in a state of insurrection and were under the jurisdiction of US Courts. That would have been in the loyal border states of MO, KY, MD, & DL, as well in counties in rebellious states that were already returned to Union control.

55 posted on 02/03/2015 4:54:44 AM PST by Ditto
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To: X Fretensis
The only state to do so was Maryland in Oct 1864.

Missouri did also in early 1865.

56 posted on 02/03/2015 5:00:43 AM PST by Ditto
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To: rockrr
President Andrew Johnson and the Federal Army in 1865. Johnson took over as president during the Civil War after Abraham Lincoln was shot

And all this time I thought the was ended before Lincoln assassination.

57 posted on 02/03/2015 5:01:50 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: Ditto

Thanks, missed that one.


58 posted on 02/03/2015 6:06:02 AM PST by X Fretensis (IW)
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To: KosmicKitty

Yeah ;’)

Remember that these are Brits writing picture captions for American photographs. There have been a few other, er, discrepancies pointed out. I just posted it for the pictures.


59 posted on 02/03/2015 6:37:33 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: X Fretensis

It was not politically expedient

Lincolns constitutional authority was fairly arbitrary

Understandable given it was a war


60 posted on 02/03/2015 9:14:32 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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