Posted on 02/02/2015 7:36:34 PM PST by rockrr
Now that is a sockdolager for sure! Kudos to Mr. Bubba Ho-Tep.
would they have been so pale? Since they were out in the sun a lot they would be tanned methinks
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
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
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
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%.
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
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
More English and Irish looking
Just check roster surnames
95%
Not all Illinois lawyers are created equal!
Damn lucky at any per centage considering the times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Missouri did also in early 1865.
And all this time I thought the was ended before Lincoln assassination.
Thanks, missed that one.
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.
It was not politically expedient
Lincolns constitutional authority was fairly arbitrary
Understandable given it was a war
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