Posted on 01/19/2009 6:54:00 AM PST by Iron Munro
The Yankees invaded the South, the South did not invade the Yankees.
And you are a horses ass and should be tar & feathered.
I know they do, and I agree that it is disgraceful. Equally disgraceful is all the yankee bashing and Lincoln hatred that seems to surface every time a Lincoln related thread is posted.
Not all yankees feel that way, some actually are educated.
My comment wasn’t meant as a cheap shot against Grant for being a slave owner (just Google GRANT SLAVE for some references).
Rather, it points out the kind of blind praise and criticism people seem to take for fact, even today with all the factual information, references and resources available. (political correctness?)
Grant - Union General = GOOD MAN
Lee - General of the CSA = BAD MAN
But it’s really not quite that simple.
Common wisdom about people and events isn’t necessarily fact - a lesson we will soon be learning all over again the hard way.
I can understand the feelings against Yankees, though, a lot of us go down there and wreck the character of the South they went there for.
Thank goodness at least 300,000 of those invading Yankee Scum died forcing their will on the South.
The South confiscated federal property and fired the first shot.
When you go out...do our friends were their “I’m with stupid” shirt?
I don't think this is entirely correct. What I've read said that he promised to release them after they fulfilled their "contract" of sorts. And when that time came he did release them. In fact, I believe it was in an article I read here.
They were both honorable men.
Trasvis, you remind me of my neighbor...he’s from Mass. and a Union re-enactor....he has a picture of Grant AND Lee on his wall.
....Happy Birthday Robert E. Lee!!
Stonewalls, whose g-grandfather was at Appomatox with I Company of the 23rd SC Inf and saw Lee....a sight he never forgot.
Bump - before the Yankees invade this thread.
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Proud conservative rebel reporting in. Though I was born in Kansas, my Great-great grandfather was from Missouri and fought for the south. He participated in, and survived, campagins including the battle of Helena, Arkansas. This happened during the time of Vicksburg’s fall.
I’ve always admired two Civil War Generals, Lee and Jackson.
That is certainly true in Cary, NC.
She must indeed be a good person then. :)
Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United State of America. He should have been hanged along with all Confederate officers.
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Yankee troll.
Thanks, I’m pretty sure. Yeah, I’m a Yankee, but I sure do love the people and the way whenever i can get out of this part of the world and head down south. Lots of “please” and “thank you”, and common courtesy i just don’t see every day. And GOOD FOOD! YUM!!
Things are so different, though, inthe last 30 years. Every main street, no matter where it is, pretty much looks identical with all the national chains destroying the local character.
What do you mean specifically?
That I agree with. Indeed when one reads the dispatches and such from the events leading up to the surrender and after, you could see the mutual respect. We should follow that example...
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