Take a look at the link in #93...a prime example of what happens when “the victor writes the history”...no wonder these poor bstrds don’t know their history. Just the opening paragraph is a side splitter...I kept looking to see if the learned professor was going to supply me with a definition of “is”...
No “crap”! They say it didn’t happen. Truthfully it did happen. And many slaves drowned trying to follow him. Sherman allowing them to follow him I compare to the democrats today allowing a poor dumb woman to believe that if she votes for a democrat her mortgage will be paid and her gas tank will always be full.
I believe that in a time of war it is wise to kill the leader if possible. But the feds wanted to call it a crime. I didn’t know they had the Bolin Amendment back then.
Truthfully most of us had descendents who fought on both sides. One of mine was a founder of Shelbyville, Tenn. That city “voted” to stay with the union and was spared being put to the torch because of that. Had another who fought for the South but never owned a slave. Don’t have as much information about him because the courthouse was burned by the federal troops. Don’t guess they saw any reason to burn the “fine antebellum homes”. And they didn’t burn Port Gibson, Mississippi because Grant said “It’s too pretty to burn”. Ha!
I, like all of us, believe slavery was horrible. But if that’s what the Civil War was about Lincoln sure took his sweet time freeing them.
Finally, some of us believe Lincoln was a criminal who trampled on the constitution. But, since our side lost, I guess we aren’t entitled to our own oppinion. But there’s one thing that can’t be denied and that is Lincoln was a bi-sexual (according to what I saw on the liberal History Channel) and today would be pushing for gay marriage! HEE, HEE!