Posted on 12/08/2007 10:54:00 PM PST by stainlessbanner
It seems akin to modern day veterans from World War 2, Korea, or Vietnam who were drafted, potentially against their will. They have the right to attend veteran reunions, and might have friends at veterans reunions, and might choose to attend veterans reunions, because they did serve in their respective wars, not that they wanted to serve in the first place.
It was oddly worded (as though personally should type).
My cousin lives in Alabama and guess what? He’s Asian! He loves the South and has a big Confederate sticker on his pick up truck as well. He’s been offered jobs in the IT sector (he’s an IT tech guy) but he never wants to leave. He says Southern girls are hot.
He says Southern girls are hot.
Your cousin is right
But that is not the reality for very many of the blacks who served in the Confederate Army. Some, indeed went as slaves and some of the slaves transformed themselves on the battlefield. Many went to fight for their homeland against the foreigners invading. A few were offered freedom if hey joined and fought. Some slaves took up their masters’ guns when master was killed.
>>...which shows him pictured with a group of other white soldiers,...<<
Mising comma; it should read:
>>...which shows him pictured with a group of other, white soldiers,...<<
You’re welcome!
“Southern history is a wonderful thing when told honestly. We dont get that very often.”
No kidding. Try telling a Yankee that the War was fought principally for economic reasons and they throw a hissy fit, as it contradicts the pap they were taught in school about the War being first and foremost about freeing the slaves. Funny that they never admit that slavery was abolished AFTER the War, and only then with the passage of the 13th Amendment. Funny, too, that they were never taught the truth about (or they conveniently forget) Lincoln’s so-called Emancipation Proclamation, which in fact freed no one.
“He says Southern girls are hot.”
They are the hottest. Especially the Louisiana belle I married.
The former Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, had a hand in writing the Canadian constitution.
Southern history is a wonderful thing when told honestly. We dont get that very often.
There were many more white southerners who fought for the Union than there were black southerners who fought for the Confederacy, but that fact is not well known either.
Yes there were, like my great-grandfather, a Confederate member of the 36th Virginia Cavalry, who was captured in 1862, sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, and forced to join the Union Army on a work gang under threat of death.
That's ironic. My great great grandfather was similarly forced by the local reb "brain trust" into the 36th Tennessee Confederate Infantry from Bradley Co. with a large number of other Unionists. Then the stupid reb commanders marched them to Cumberland Gap where they deserted in droves and joined the Union Army. The glorious Confederate States of America thus served as a very effective recruiting officer for the Union Army.
With such brillant leadership, it's no wonder the Confederacy proved to be no good. :)
You are right. That WAS a stupid move. The Confederate Commander should have HUNG the whole bunch of them.....
Really nice story....Thanks for the ping.
I am constantly thinking of it as the war for Southern independence but I think it was more accurately named “The war of Northern aggression”
“Southern history is a wonderful thing when told honestly. We dont get that very often”
Ain’t that the truth.
> Its only the politically correct crowd that will tell us this isnt possible or that Ike was forced to follow his master and friend.
Here’s another tidbit that the political correctionists will never acknowledge:
The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was an all black Confederate Infantry Regiment. There was also an all black Union Infantry Regiment called the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. They were separate military units with the same name. Like the 54th Massachusetts that was featured in the film “Glory”, both black Union Regiments had all white officers. The black Confederate regiments were unique in that they almost always had all black officers.
Do you really think he had a choice?
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