Posted on 11/21/2021 12:17:03 AM PST by blueplum
He's going to have to fight it out with two women...one of them black. I'd pay to see a debate between Warren Wilhelm, Jr. and Letitia James. She's as corrupt as he is, and I'd bet, as Attorney General, she's scouring deBlasio's years as Mayor, looking for anything she can start an investigation on, or use against him in his campaign. That's how she helped knock Cuomo out of office.
It is just the USA history under attack. Western civilization is under attack.
Ulysses S Grant had Ely S. Parker, who had been born on the Tonawanda Seneca Reservation as his military secretary during the war. He was with Grant at Appomattox, and helped draft the terms of surrender. They're in his handwriting. When Grant was elected President, he made Parker the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
I went to high school with a Parker in Rochester, New York. She was Native American. Wish I'd known that history back in the 60's. I would have loved to ask her if she was related.
Nevertheless, as a near universal rule, aboriginal peoples -- including those of European prehistory -- tend to be brutal and violent. The American Indians were no exception. Indeed, for most Indians, torturing captives was routine because it was a way to assert and accrue power in both temporal and spiritual realms.
It was generally believed by American Indians that those whom one killed in warfare or tortured to death became your servants in the afterlife. I suppose even that because they were spiritually bound to be obedient, such servants in the afterlife would not have to be regularly beaten like wives or purchased like Black slaves were in this world. In Indian myth, the supposed Happy Hunting Grounds of the afterlife thus could be pre-equipped with servants.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I spent several years researching various regiments in the Civil War. Specialized in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts. Traveled to many of the battlefields, and spent most of my vacations sitting at the National Archives, going through pension and military records, or checking out private manuscript collections at various libraries and historical societies. Met some great people along the way. I never bothered to continue my research into the U.S. Army, and its role in the west. Now, most of my time is spent reading books about other periods of history...Britain, France, Germany, WWI and WWII.
The Robert E. Lee statue was not “destroyed.” It was carefully cut into several pieces, I think 3, and then put into storage for future plans. I think they said it was 35 feet tall, so had to be segmented for actual handling. Also was extremely heavy in one piece.
Since I majored in history in college and read a great deal of WW II military history over the years, I projected visiting archives and battlefields in retirement. Life has taken a different turn, but I still recognize the value of research in archives.
For example, the late military historian John Keegan described going to the US Army Air Corps archives at Maxwell AFB in Alabama to review the old studies and coursework for the Army Air War College. There Keegan found class assignments and student papers from the 20s and 30s.
Young Air Corps officers with famous names like Arnold, Eaker, Spatz, and so on were instructed to develop the plans, target lists, aircraft, and tactics needed for the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan.
Remarkably, in an era when fabric covered biplanes and open cockpit flying were still routine and the US Army was mostly a constabulary force, the best young minds of the US military were, in effect, preparing for the great air camapigns of WW II by projecting the development of four engined heavy bombers that were beyond the technology of the day.
After the war, Wilder became a Professor at Cornell...even left his brain to the college. He was a bit eccentric, but his main interest was writing a new unit history, as he felt the original by Charles Fox, the Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment wasn't broad enough. He never got to put the new history together, but all his correspondence was there at Cornell...even Carte de Visites of the officers, and some of the black soldiers. Wilder had not only corresponded with members of the unit, both white and black, he also corresponded with members of the Confederate units they fought in South Carolina. The unit's headquarters were on Folly Island, outside of Charleston. Wilder also traveled there, and spent time with former Confederate officers and soldiers, walking the ground they had fought on. He even took some photos at the time, places that no longer exist. I could go on, and tell you about all the wonderful people I shared that information with, and my own travels over that same ground, but it would be a very lengthy read.
Some of the information, and photos I located were all put in a book titled: Carrying the Colors: The Life and Legacy of Medal of Honor Recipient Andrew Jackson Smith by W. Robert Beckman, and Sharon S. MacDonald. The book is dedicated to me, and Willis "Skipper" Keith who lives on James Island, S.C., and who kindly shared his knowledge with me, of the history of the place he calls home.
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