re: Rare photo of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on the march (colorized)

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The u.s. is the strongest nation the world has ever known

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With a mighty, centralized federal government that has made state governments mere and unnecessary appendages of that almighty federal government.

The Founders and Framers are absolutely turning in their graves because THIS kind of US FedGov is EXACTLY what they wanted to avoid.

Additionally, the 2019 USA is on a path to transform itself in the most powerful and successful Globalist Internationalist Socialist Atheist country in history. It will take a few generations for the process to culminate, but, the USA is definitely on this path.

As such, I'm not so certain that the "right side" won the war. I'm not so certain that the Southern states had no right to secede and form a new nation. I'm not so certain that this new nation should have been denied the right to decide for itself how to solve its own problems and injustices.

BUT, I do agree that 1860 was not the right time to Secede and then attack the USA. As such, the South did commit a blunder in starting the whole thing. I wish it had never happened.

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What ruler?

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Lincoln.

His human rights violations should make anyone cringe. He also walked all over the constitution.

there wasn't a "good side" during the civil war.

My bad, i forgot, after this picture was taken, Grant gave Lee a Roman Soldier Helmet and then drug his balls down his chin.

Yes I know. They also did a little of that in Jean Claude Van Dam movie Timecop at the beginning.

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The Union captured and controlled New Orleans in less than a year . Whole damn thing was wrapped up in less than 4 years

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The war should have been over in a few months. The north was fighting a battle in its backyard, had the south blockaded, way more troops, food, doctors, better guns, much bigger navy, etc. The vast majority of the higher ups in both the north and the south expected it to last a few weeks to months and instead it went on for 4 years. Many people, even today think Lee could have dragged the war on for many more years but southerners were starving. Thankfully he finally ended the war, even against his own soldiers and many commanders wishes.

If Lee has fought for the north I don’t think the war last more than a couple months

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Lee lost because he went on the offensive. Even Longstreet made comments afterward that Lee is a defensive genius, but on the offensive, not quite one.

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Lee went on the offensive because he knew it was the only way to win then war, i.e. to weaken Northern resolve enough to get them to stop fighting. To that end he was willing to take risks by invading the north. The attack at Gettysburg was Lee going all in for the win.

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The Union captured and controlled New Orleans in less than a year . Whole damn thing was wrapped up in less than 4 years.

Southerners love to tell themselves fairytales about the civil war but at the end of the day they were treasonous losers fighting for the rights of rich white guys to own black people.

And those tough good old boys got put in their place real quick by a bunch of Yankees who weren’t even ready to fight. The entire ordeal is so embarrassing to the South in so many ways.

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You should go find every history teacher you’ve ever learned from and slap the shite out of them for failing you so miserably.

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Lee went on the offensive because he knew it was the only way to win then war, i.e. to weaken Northern resolve enough to get them to stop fighting. To that end he was willing to take risks by invading the north. The attack at Gettysburg was Lee going all in for the win

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True, I understand his reasoning, it just didn’t work Best thing for Lee would have been to stay defensive and push this war on for another decade and make them tired of fighting it