-PJ
Posted on 05/01/2017 7:54:06 AM PDT by C19fan
John S. Mosby, known as the “Gray Ghost,” was a Virginian who became legendary for his leadership of Mosby’s Rangers—a band of Confederate guerrilla fighters that harassed the Union Army and went toe-to-toe with George Armstrong Custer in the Shenandoah Valley.
Mosby is still highly regarded as a strategist and tactician and is studied to this day by practitioners of unconventional warfare. He lived a long life, dying early in the 20th century, and was also a lawyer, a diplomat and author who wrote about his experiences during the war.
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“But it’s not so complicated that we can’t see it for what it was—a war over slavery.”
Let me ask the question this way: If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
Yamamoto was against the attack on Pearl Harbor. Amazing how the leaders think differently. Maybe they really don’t believe their own thoughts.
-PJ
“Eli Whitney and John Deere freed the slaves.”
Eli Whitney’s invention created a need for more slaves. Not less.
This is the opinion of the article's author.
In his Memoirs, Mosby tells it a little different: “No one clung longer to the Confederacy than I did, and I can say with the champion of another lost cause that if Troy could have been saved by this right hand even by the same it would have been saved.”
What? No one knew that Hood burned Atlanta trying to keep military supplies from Sherman? :)
By 1840 about 5% of the world's sugar was derived from sugar beets, and by 1880 this number had risen more than tenfold to over 50%
Wikipedia.
Certainly explains why Brazil ended slavery in 1888: it was no longer profitable.
There were two Mosby TV shows in my era
The term Lost Cause is misapplied if it refers to confederates who opposed sesch
The Lost Cause wasn’t even coined till around 1900 as a reconciliation tool between former foes and then really ingrained in film
No it wasn't. That is just the propaganda that has been sold to justify the deaths of 750,000 people in a senseless war. The war was over who would control the money flow created by the Southern States.
Slavery got tossed in as a cause for the war effort about 2 years after the war started. Prior to that time, there was no intention of eliminating slavery.
The effort to portray the Civil War as an effort to free the slaves is contrary to the real history. It is just an after the fact rationalization for all the carnage.
I’m a c19fan fan here and appreciate your efforts
But that War is Boring site is kinda ‘tard
No, they didn’t. Not for effecting law. That’s just your liberal bigotry spouting anti-southern propaganda.
It is not worth repeating because it is flat out wrong. It is a myth that has been built up in the aftermath of the destruction caused by the civil war to justify the very horrible thing that happened.
Lincoln had no intentions of doing anything about slavery when the Civil War began. The reason he invaded the South was to prevent independence, not to abolish slavery. He didn't even abolish slavery in the five Union states in which it was still occurring.
It wasn't until six months after the Civil War that all the Union States had given up slavery.
Eli Whitney’s most famous quote:
“Git yer cotton-pickin’ hands off’n my gin!!”
Leaders know that leaders have people they report too. The dumb think leaders are in charge and can do anything they want.
You asked the wrong folks
Atlanfrica is kept afloat by north Atlanta and the burbs
That was why passions ran high.
"The South had always been solid for slavery and when the quarrel about it resulted in a conflict of arms, those who had approved the policy of disunion took the pro-slavery side. It was perfectly logical to fight for slavery, if it was right to own slaves." - John Mosby, "The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby"
But hey, what did he know?
The South saw secession as a strategy to preserve and even extend slavery, not just relinquish it slowly on terms of its choosing. Then, after the utter defeat of the Confederacy, the South spun the elaborate myth of the Lost Cause, which depicted the antebellum South as founded on happy slaves tending abundant fields, presided over by a gallant ruling class enjoying lives of virtue and noble leisure. The truth of the matter is that slavery was profoundly wrong, with the South both wrong and foolish to secede and go to war to try to preserve it.
About the economic reasons why the North could not allow the South to be free of their control? He probably knew nothing of it.
Had the North not stopped the South, the South would have become an economic powerhouse and wrecked countless Northern industries.
If they couldn't control the money, they had to destroy it.
But the process began much sooner. The first bill proposing an amendment to end slavery was proposed by James Ashley of Ohio in December 1863. The amendment passed the Senate in April 1864 but failed in the House. It passed the House in January 1865 and was sent to the states for ratification and that was completed in December 1865.
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