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re: Ever heard the story of the 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg?
Posted on 11/3/19 at 12:12 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 11/3/19 at 12:12 pm to RollTide1987
I have a great book in my library titled “Covered with Glory, The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg ” by Rod Gragg. If you want to get the full, in-depth story of what the 26th endured at Gettysburg, you need to get this book.
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Posted on 11/3/19 at 12:30 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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You love to see it. Southern terrorist scum.
The only scum is you. Those North Carolinians weren't slaveholders. They were poor farmers who were fighting an army that had invaded Virginia to their north and blockaded Charleston to their south.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 12:37 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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You love to see it. Southern terrorist scum.
I know you think this makes you sound edgy and “woke”. But really all it does is make you sound like a dickhole and an idiot.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 12:49 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Ken Burn’s civil war documentary is pro-Yankee propaganda piece. It’s garbage.
His most featured expert is Shelby Foote. Try again.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 2:15 pm to RollTide1987
I've always felt bad about what happened to the 26th NC Regt at Gettysburg. I once saw their Reenactment unit at Gettysburg and they sure do a very nice impression of that famed Regiment.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 2:43 pm to RollTide1987
I am surprised that no one has offered this tidbit.
There were more Confederate soldiers from North Carolina than any other state. And not just more, but a lot more.
There were more Confederate soldiers from North Carolina than any other state. And not just more, but a lot more.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 2:49 pm to Champagne
A battle and campaign that was totally unnecessary. The effort should have been in the West, at Vicksburg.
Grant could have been cut off and hurt badly there. But you had a garrison commander that did not prepare for a siege. Had Pemberton laid in supplies as he should have Grant and Sherman never break into those fortifications.
The South should have sent all they could to break that siege. Joe Johnston had around 30K he'd scraped up. Send him Forrest from Chattanooga, they weren't using him anyway and turn him loose on the Union rear, and send Longstreet's First Corps from ANV with near 25K.
Lee fights a defensive war in Northern Virginia while Johnston is in Grant's rear with 55k effectives and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Pemberton had something like 28K which means the South had Grant outnumbered at that point. Cut off very likely and maybe forcing him to withdraw to the North or South towards Baton Rouge. In any event likely breaking through to Pemberton at some point.
Grant could have been cut off and hurt badly there. But you had a garrison commander that did not prepare for a siege. Had Pemberton laid in supplies as he should have Grant and Sherman never break into those fortifications.
The South should have sent all they could to break that siege. Joe Johnston had around 30K he'd scraped up. Send him Forrest from Chattanooga, they weren't using him anyway and turn him loose on the Union rear, and send Longstreet's First Corps from ANV with near 25K.
Lee fights a defensive war in Northern Virginia while Johnston is in Grant's rear with 55k effectives and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Pemberton had something like 28K which means the South had Grant outnumbered at that point. Cut off very likely and maybe forcing him to withdraw to the North or South towards Baton Rouge. In any event likely breaking through to Pemberton at some point.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 4:38 pm to antibarner
North won
South covered
Love how all the patriots on this board's love of country is so conditional. Don't give me state's rights BS--read some of those state succession declarations (texas) and tell me that. It was about slavery (states right to have slaves)
South covered
Love how all the patriots on this board's love of country is so conditional. Don't give me state's rights BS--read some of those state succession declarations (texas) and tell me that. It was about slavery (states right to have slaves)
Posted on 11/3/19 at 4:51 pm to Tmcgin
Actually strictly speaking secession probably was legal. Slavery was doomed as an institution sooner rather than later anyhow. Never should have been fought but negotiated away, but Abe Lincoln decided his way or nothing.
His way cost 600,000 dead (many more counting civilians), not telling how many maimed and the scars remain today. He's no hero to me.
His way cost 600,000 dead (many more counting civilians), not telling how many maimed and the scars remain today. He's no hero to me.
This post was edited on 11/3/19 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 11/3/19 at 4:57 pm to antibarner
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Pemberton had something like 28K which means the South had Grant outnumbered at that point. Cut off very likely and maybe forcing him to withdraw to the North or South towards Baton Rouge. In any event likely breaking through to Pemberton at some point.
Force them to Baton Rouge and now you have a mess with the Siege of Port Hudson.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 7:04 pm to Tmcgin
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Don't give me state's rights BS--read some of those state succession declarations (texas) and tell me that. It was about slavery (states right to have slaves)
Every other Western nation on Earth ended slavery by the beginning of the 20th century without a war. The centralization of the American state and long decay into the leviathan we have today began with that war.
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