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155 years ago today....Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:15 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:15 am
At Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:17 am to RollTide1987
Pussy
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:24 am to RollTide1987
Poor old Wilmer McLean had two battles on his properties - one to begin the war, the other to end it.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:54 am to RollTide1987
It blows my mind that was only 155 years ago.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:57 am to RollTide1987
I give thanks to God every day for that day. How Southerners, even some of my own ancestors, thought it was acceptable to own others repulses me. This will ultimately devolve into an argument with people saying Southerners were fighting for states rights. Yes, the states’ rights to determine if it is legal to own humans as property. Nothing was genteel or honorable about that.
All that said, I miss the Lee Circle monument.
All that said, I miss the Lee Circle monument.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 6:59 am to RollTide1987
This was likely the worst day in American history. R.E. Lee was a piece of shot not to heed N.B. Forrest’s plan for guerrilla warfare. This is the reason our country is fricked to this day.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:00 am to RollTide1987
General Sherman. 
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:03 am to TulaneLSU
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the states’ rights to determine if it is legal to own humans as property. Nothing was genteel or honorable about that.
Oh suck a dick the North profited from slavery that whole time too, but just didn’t want to get their hands dirty and they certainly weren’t on a moral crusade.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:04 am to NotoriousFSU
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the North profited from slavery that whole time too, but just didn’t want to get their hands dirty and they certainly weren’t on a moral crusade.
Exactly this
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:10 am to TulaneLSU
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I give thanks to God every day for that day. How Southerners, even some of my own ancestors, thought it was acceptable to own others repulses me.
Oh my gawd! Get a refund on your education, sir.
Northerners had slaves before, during, and after the Civil War as well.
Without Southern cotton (which required a lot of labor) The North would have had no economy compared to The South. That is why they were the aggressors in that war.
Did you educate yourself at PBS?
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:12 am to Bayou
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Without Southern cotton (which required a lot of labor) The North would have had no economy compared to The South. That is why they were the aggressors in that war.
Did you educate yourself at PBS?
Yikes. New York alone had more manufacturing than every single state in the Confederacy combined.
This post was edited on 4/9/20 at 7:13 am
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:13 am to bigberg2000
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blows my mind that was only 155 years ago.
The last veterans of both sides died in just the 1950s
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:14 am to TT9
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General Sherman
War criminal
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:18 am to deltaland
Sherman was a war criminal? The Confederacy was lucky that all of their government officials weren’t executed after the war. They committed treason.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:18 am to RollTide1987
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This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 9:34 pm
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:23 am to TulaneLSU
Dear Friend,
Let us also not forget the oppression of the Irish Famine refugees by scurrilous Yankees during this era as well. Disease, fire hazards, unsanitary conditions and the social problems of violence, alcoholism and crime.
Let us never forget the oppression.
When America Despised the Irish.
LINK
And, as a true historian with a love of education and knowledge, may I recommend reading stories from the common man in the South during the Civil War. May I highly recommend Company Aytch. It gives an entirely different perspective of what most were fighting for back then.
Yours truly,
Nole Man
Let us also not forget the oppression of the Irish Famine refugees by scurrilous Yankees during this era as well. Disease, fire hazards, unsanitary conditions and the social problems of violence, alcoholism and crime.
Let us never forget the oppression.
When America Despised the Irish.
LINK
And, as a true historian with a love of education and knowledge, may I recommend reading stories from the common man in the South during the Civil War. May I highly recommend Company Aytch. It gives an entirely different perspective of what most were fighting for back then.
Yours truly,
Nole Man
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:23 am to Bayou
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Northerners had slaves
I always love "but the north..." argument.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:24 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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OleWarSkuleAlum
Alabama Fan
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This was likely the worst day in American history. R.E. Lee was a piece of shot not to heed N.B. Forrest’s plan for guerrilla warfare. This is the reason our country is fricked to this day.
Alabama fan and fan of the founder of the KKK. Checks out.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:24 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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This is the reason our country is fricked to this day.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 7:25 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
quote:why am I not surprised that this piece of shite thinks this
This was likely the worst day in American history. R.E. Lee was a piece of shot not to heed N.B. Forrest’s plan for guerrilla warfare. This is the reason our country is fricked to this day.
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