Posted on 09/24/2011 4:14:02 PM PDT by BigReb555
General Lee died at his home at Lexington, Virginia at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 12, 1870.
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Amazing how that point is over looked isn’t it...
That’s gonna leave a mark...
That’s gonna leave a mark...
Great pic!
Well.... he was a traitor.
C’mon, man. The slaves were given two new shirts a month, according to the law.
And Cold Harbor, but heck, they were forced conscripts anyway, probably fresh immigrants, so who cared, Grant didn’t.
Oh...a big fan of Rebel tricycles, are ya?
;)
It’s a beautiful place.
In the midst of liberal-infested Frederick, is a carefully maintained cemetery for the Confederate dead of Antietam, South Mountain, Monocacy and other local skirmishes.
There are *always* new flags on the graves.
http://erikafranz.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/visiting-the-civil-war-in-frederick-md/
But...but...the civil war wasn’t fought over slavery! The neo-secessionists told me so!
“And all in the service of what was ones of the most oppressive, evil governments in the Western world at the time.”
They represented the South, not the North. Lincoln was a tyrant.
” The slaves were given two new shirts a month, according to the law.”
I didn’t know the North cared so much for their slaves.
Given the spirit of retribution which took command of the country after Lincoln's assassination, the acquittal of Jefferson Davis was still far from certain, but the trial itself would have been a huge embarrassment for the prosecution regardless of the outcome.
From a legal point of view, I am not sure the issue of succession was ever settled. However, the ham-handed manner in which it was handled in several southern state legislatures did not follow constitutional muster either-- it was basically rammed through with little or no debate and over the objections of a significant portion of the state's citizenry.
I bought that book well over 10 years ago. It is one of my favorites.
LOL! I guess that makes up for a lot of other things...
Even Grant admitted that he’d messed up big time at Cold Harbor. During the last Union charge, many soldiers wrote their names and hometowns on pieces of paper and pinned this to the back of their jacket so they could be identified after the battle.
Between the slave power and states' rights there was no necessary connection. The slave power, when in control, was a centralizing influence, and all the most considerable encroachments on states' rights were its acts. The acquisition and admission of Louisiana; the Embargo; the War of 1812; the annexation of Texas "by joint resolution" [rather than treaty]; the war with Mexico, declared by the mere announcement of President Polk; the Fugitive Slave Law; the Dred Scott decision — all triumphs of the slave power — did far more than either tariffs or internal improvements, which in their origin were also southern measures, to destroy the very memory of states' rights as they existed in 1789. Whenever a question arose of extending or protecting slavery, the slaveholders became friends of centralized power, and used that dangerous weapon with a kind of frenzy. Slavery in fact required centralization in order to maintain and protect itself, but it required to control the centralized machine; it needed despotic principles of government, but it needed them exclusively for its own use. Thus, in truth, states' rights were the protection of the free states, and as a matter of fact, during the domination of the slave power, Massachusetts appealed to this protecting principle as often and almost as loudly as South Carolina.
Traveller.
What was Lee's pack horse's name?
I guess I should have marked my post sarcasm. I thought it was obvious.
Lucy Long.
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