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Remembering Jefferson Davis: American Patriot & Southern Hero
Huntington News ^ | May 24, 2012 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

Posted on 05/25/2012 3:40:47 PM PDT by BigReb555

Jefferson Finis Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian County later Todd County, in the horse racing (Derby State) of Kentucky.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: american; confederate; dixie
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To: Sporke

Wrong, wrong and wrong.


21 posted on 05/25/2012 4:56:10 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: ought-six
Robert Todd Lincoln.

We have a winner!

22 posted on 05/25/2012 4:59:51 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: BigReb555

And if it hasn’t been mentioned, he was a Democrat.


23 posted on 05/25/2012 5:00:37 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: BigReb555

24 posted on 05/25/2012 5:03:50 PM PDT by Last of the Mohicans
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

It was suggested that Bragg so hated Davis that he may have done what he did on purpose. Of course, Bragg argued even with himself-that was the way he was.

If the idiots Lincoln and Halleck would have let Grant do what he wanted at the beginning, that war would have been over very early. Grant feared no southern general like he feared Johnson. He knew that if the south would have followed Johnsons tactics and draw the war out, the north would have grown so weary of the war that they would have sued for peace.


25 posted on 05/25/2012 5:14:40 PM PDT by crz
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To: rockrr

You may find the information in this article interesting.

http://patdollard.com/2009/03/all-wars-are-economic-and-are-always-between-centralists-and-decentralists/


26 posted on 05/25/2012 5:18:49 PM PDT by hwkbeer
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To: crz

If the idiots Lincoln and Halleck would have let Grant do what he wanted at the beginning, that war would have been over very early. Grant feared no southern general like he feared Johnson. He knew that if the south would have followed Johnsons tactics and draw the war out, the north would have grown so weary of the war that they would have sued for peace.

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27 posted on 05/25/2012 5:31:00 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Sporke
Slavery had little to do with the start of the war of northern aggression. Slavery would have died a natural death if the war had never happened.

The Slaveholders’ constitution made the abolition of slavery unconstitutional and therefore impossible.

Article I Section 9(4)
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

28 posted on 05/25/2012 5:39:32 PM PDT by Cheburashka (If found, please return this Ring of Power to Sauron, Lord of Darkness. Return postage guaranteed.)
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To: BigReb555

I ran across the Jefferson Davis Monument at Fairview, Ky by accident, just driving from one end of Kentucky to the other.

Surprised, I took several pictures because I had never heard of the Jeff Davis Monument. Got home and found that I had left the lens cap on. No pictures.


29 posted on 05/25/2012 5:45:49 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: BigReb555

I ran across the Jefferson Davis Monument at Fairview, Ky by accident, just driving from one end of Kentucky to the other.

Surprised, I took several pictures because I had never heard of the Jeff Davis Monument. Got home and found that I had left the lens cap on. No pictures.


30 posted on 05/25/2012 5:46:01 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: stylecouncilor

FreeRepublic: One of the great and continuing battlefields of the Civil War.


31 posted on 05/25/2012 5:54:45 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There’s a local woman whose name is Tertia. Yup, she was number 3.


32 posted on 05/25/2012 5:56:37 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Jefferson Davis was one of American history’s true statesmen. He will always be revered by those true to Constitutional government and the American Revolution.


33 posted on 05/25/2012 6:48:33 PM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: varina davis
Jefferson Davis was one of American history’s true statesmen.

With 400,000 brave young Americans dead to his credit.

Yeah, real statesman alright.

Varina, dear, let your husband rest in peace and may he spend the rest of Eternity shaking the hand of each man, woman and child who suffered and died in the bloodiest war America has ever fought.

FReegards!


34 posted on 05/25/2012 7:05:02 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Agamemnon

It was a horrible bloody war, you are correct, and it did not need to be fought. As Davis said just before leaving the Union and joining the South, “We just want to be left alone.”

But unlike many of the following wars, it was a cause fought for freedom as prescribed by the founders of this nation. Not for nation building, not for oil, not for expediency of trade.


35 posted on 05/25/2012 7:14:29 PM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: BigReb555

Davis was an American patriot and a southern hero- but not at the same time.


36 posted on 05/25/2012 7:45:55 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: varina davis

I guess that’s why his own people wanted to hang him from a sour apple tree.


37 posted on 05/25/2012 7:59:53 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.)
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To: nnn0jeh

Ping


38 posted on 05/25/2012 8:10:49 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: BigReb555
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39 posted on 05/25/2012 8:28:47 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: BigReb555
Here is a Southern Patriot...

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George H. Thomas - "The Rock of Chickamauga"

A true son of Virginia.

40 posted on 05/25/2012 8:39:27 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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