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Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland.
In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress.
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And the particular states right that they fought for was the right to enslave people. We know this because they people who seceded told us this. And in their constitution they explicitly forbid states from banning slavery.
Agree
A great many of those young boys were dirt poor …….no doubt a lot of them not unlike the ‘Boston Tea folks’ who resented being told what to do and think.
Why else would they fight for slaves they never owned or would own.
I firmly believe it was ‘states rights’…..
Thank you for this piece of history, I look forward to watching/listening.
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From what I’ve read, most southerners did not own slaves. So perhaps it’s reasonable to say that many (most?) southerners really were primarily fighting for states rights.
But I don’t think you can say that when you go higher up in the political hierarchy. The folks at and near the top had a more complicated agenda. Same as it ever was. The grunts get fed a line, and end up fighting for something they might not really agree with.
A good example of that is the average German soldier in WW II. He signs up to protect the Fatherland. And then the next thing you know he’s doing the dirty work of an evil regime.
Well said
Some of them fought because they weren’t given an alternative.
I have many ancestors and other relatives who fought in the ‘late unpleasantness’. As far as I can tell, all those who died died defending their homeland.
Thanks for posting this, definitely worth ten minutes of your time.
Yes, that’s about right. Nice post.
Great Post- Thank You.
History does repeat itself.
Will America recover? It’s up to us :
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Incorrect.
Had they wanted to preserve slavery they simply could have stayed in the union where slavery was not threatened.
Alternatively, they could have agreed to the Corwin Amendment aka the North’s “slavery forever” constitutional amendment. They rejected it outright.
But hey, thanks for the standard regime propaganda.
It was much more to do with MONEY in the form of tariffs and trade policy/government subsidies to special interest groups.
The South had an export based economy and needed low tariffs to facilitate trade and to keep the cost of manufactured goods low. The North was industrializing but their factories could not compete with European factories on price due to lack of economies of scale - so they lobbied for and got high tariffs which benefitted them but crushed the Southern economy. Thus the nullification crisis of the early 1830s. They had to retreat from the high tariffs but a generation later when the demographics were more in their favor, they were back to get those sky high tariffs again.
The South had seen this before and decided they were not going to stick around to be the North’s cash cow. Lincoln could not afford to let the North’s cash cow leave. There’s secession and the war in a nutshell. Slavery was just a bargaining chip - for both sides.
Germans were told that Germans living in Poland and Czechoslovakia, for example, were being raped and murdered, and needed help.
The average German soldier knew no more than that. They volunteered in groups from the same communities. These were boys who grew up together.
It doesn't make Hitler's objectives any less horrific, but it does explain the naïveté of the combat grunt.
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?
Yes, I’m tired of the same old regurgitated nonsense about slavery. It was a fight for freedom and as an Albertan (outsider looking in) the wrong side won.
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