re: Would one of you mind telling me where the Tiger mascot came from?

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The Washington Artillery had a tiger as it's mascot long before the Civil War.

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True, but the Tiger wasn't applied to the State as a whole until the War.

ive called lsu archives they want to see it ...i found it as a kid in my grandmothers house in new orleans ....she didnt know where they had gotten it from

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Or has actually obtained an eduation.

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Priceless.

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yep only simple minded retards think the war was over slavery.

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Or educated people with PhDs in history. Get over yourself. Pull the scales form your eyes, question the lies you've been brainwashed with, and EDUCATE yourself.

The Civil War was fundamentally about slavery. What "right" did the South secede to preserve?

Maybe you need to go back and double check with Gaines. I had 4 history classes with Gaines Foster and from what I recall (it was 10 years ago) he espoused the idea that Slavery served as a rallying cry or convenient excuse for the North to usurp the rights of the states. The Missouri compromise really began to bring these issues to the fore and made slavery the central issue. The foundation issue was whether or not states had the right to determine their own laws and status irrespective of federal dictates. Slavery was the straw that broke the camel's back not the entire load.

"Would you please inform the general that the Washington Artillery cannot defeat the entire Yankee army..."

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a lot of the younger posters don't.

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They need to go to fishcamp.

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Vast oversimplification.

It was the war for Southern Independence.

That's how Lincoln saw it, which is why he refused to recognize the CSA as a new country. Until they defeated the North, they didn't earn their independence. As far as Lincoln was concerned, the only way a state could secede from the Union was to win independence the way the colonists had.

The slavery issue was settled once and for all by a Constitutional amendment. But you can't force people to love their neighbors, which is why it took another 100 years for people of color to win the right to vote, use the same facilities as whites, etc. And as Randy Newman sang about, blacks were treated just as poorly in many Northern cities. Here in Oregon, the Klan was rampant in the 1920s and blacks were forbidden to own homes in Portland except in certain neighborhoods. The South is far from alone in bearing the shame of the past.

I'm not proud of the way America treated people of color for centuries. But the Civil War was but a very small part of America's (and the whole world for that matter) long struggle with slavery and more akin to the American Revolution -- the difference being the South lost in its attempt at rebellion.

I was just in Gettysburg back in October and saw a house near Cemetery Hill that mentioned Louisiana's Tigers. They were famous...well known fighters, drinkers and ladies' men. The nickname is PERFECT for my alma mater.

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I am glad you took the time to type that, because I would have never been able to put it so well.

I know I would have hated fishcamp too! Too much brainwashing.