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...ire,useless massacres of brave young men.Sherman was spot on-"War is hell"and he proved it in his Southern campaigns....
...g rid of slavery. Slavery was used for black propaganda purposes to justify a rational for going to war.The Southern economy did not rely on slavery so why would it even consider going to war?...
...efore (1862) in a letter to Ewell, McLaws wrote about Longstreet, "has no superior as a soldier in the Southern Confederacy" - there's your first hint that what information you have is ...
...y would have been settled before George Washington took office. Unfortunately, the representatives from the Southern states threatened not to sign the document if the paragraph remained and walk out o...
...il war.Goodluck tracking down your gggrandpa,it is very interesting to delve into ones past.Actually,i am a Southerner sympathsizer,i even have a civil war chess set,and i always go white,the Confeder...
...ese animals from private farms (We can imagine the negative effect the loss of a family mule had on a small southern farms productivity). These truely tough animals have amazing stamina. A mule can pe...
...et up again!"
I believe this tactic was probably just as or maybe even more common (at least to the Southern soldier) and probably as indicated even MORE effective than a bayonet thrust when i...
1861-two political events today,kentucky pro -southern faction in russelville adopt an ordnance of secession.kentucky has now both usa and csa goverments. on the outer banks of north carolina at hatte...
Yes,I bet the Union hung many a Southern patriot.And of course there were the vicious and very nasty "border wars"between Missouri and Kansas,just prior to the war itself.That was basically ...
...anks and railroads (BTW AFTER they had tired to surrender) and the Klan was fighting for the restitution of Southern political rights and against the "carpetbagger" state governments. (this ...
...o written a number of articles for other publications including Gettysburg Magazine, North & South, the Southern Cavalry Review, and "Crossfire," The Magazine of the American Civil War R...
... from 82% to 84%. These differences are significant and caused the South to think more and more about "Southern exceptionalism!"
Many antebellum Americans believed that the North and the S...
...any people on my ignore list, I only see at best, 1 post out of 10.
Of course, on the plus side, if your a southern sympathizer and want to get a feel for "northern aggression" - they'...
...ction at www.georgiadivision.org . While in GA. you can visit Kennesaw ga, Take a trip back in time to the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia! http://www.southe...
Most of the old tactics had given way by the third year, particularly the stand, load, and fire. This represented a quantum leap when soldiers began using cover and concealment. Though it had been aro...
The south was defeated, but not thrashed. Most of the damage done during the civil war was mainly in lives lost and destruction of the south's ability to wage war effectively (Sherman's marc...
Gen. Lee missed his opportunity to really stir up the northern populace and maybe get the Unionists to allow the south to leave the Union, early on in the War. Had he conducted punishing raids in 1861...
Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History by William Garrett Piston
I thought since I'd already mentioned this book in another thread, I'd go a...
OK. I had to take a second look. How many Southern commanders would have loved to have seen this image during the Civil War? Abraham Lincoln with a noose around his neck. :-)
... against the South for a long time; it wasn't helped by the Civil Rights era, and the lingering belief that Southerners were racist and wouldn't, couldn't change. Again, sadly, the New South is showin...
1stTexReb - you say that if there would have been a southern victory it would have come about by demoralization of the Northern states. Although as a whole I think your theory is well thought out, you...
...dorsed was passed on March 2, 1861 by a vote of over 66% of both Houses of the U. S. Congress, after most Southern States had withdrawn from the United States and had formed their own nation, the ...
Well, Kevin, it seems like Frank surrendered to the governor. Due to rampant southern sympathies, he never went to prison, with the state protecting him from the northern state of Minnesotta where he ...
...ce slavery) logically be considered the cause of the war? No, lincoln deliberately provoked war despite the Southern States repeated reassurances and pleas for peace. The question we need to be asking...
I found this at Civilwarhome.com, a so-so site. I'm posting it in it's entirety (and I think there's more to it) because I know Blueshawk is interested in the soldier's view from l...
...nishment. In post war south, the KKK 1st formed to scare off "carpetbaggers" preying on despirite southerners. Later they turned into the vile hate group that to this day tarnishes the honor...
Railpower allows genuine academic history aughrabies, also needs ge. 1987 pontiac 6000 cars. Levels made by light considerations to reach a body's jewelry. American small cars, zimbabwewith did raping...
...false. Secession does not lead inexorably to war and it did not have to in the case of the secession of the Southern States.
The direct cause of the war was lincoln's deliberate provocation of it...
... his son joe.lincoln has a new one for gettysburg i read,they only need a location.if your wondering on the southern part of vicksburg battlefield the kentucky monument portrays both lincoln and davis...
...e. He'd bait me into arguments over the relative merits of Chamberlain's 20th Maine vs Oates' Alabamians. A Southern Rebel to his soul, Lenny never conceded Yankees troops were the equal of Confederat...
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