re: The Will of a Southerner to a roaring Confederacy victory - The Battle of Chancellorsville

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One of the most sad aspects of progressive propaganda usurping American history is 99.9% of young Americans will go their entire life thinking this man, one of the greatest Americans to ever live, a true Titan of our country was nothing more than a racist traitor.

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A tactician truly ahead of his time. I often wonder how history would treat him had he chosen to fight for the Union.

Something about competing with an alcoholic yankee for command of the union army. Perhaps even the presidency eventually.

Probably should have stipulated history up to 2020.

Don't disagree with any of your points. Grant will be branded a racist in time.

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Do you southerners ever feel weird reliving the battles of a lost war?

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obviously I'm not going to speak for others regarding why they enjoy watching them....but I've always been fascinated with history(specifically history of wars throughout the years).

I don't still go to re-enactments but the times I did years ago I did appreciate getting to watch in person how battles were fought at that time.

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Do you southerners ever feel weird reliving the battles of a lost war? I must admit, as the fan of a lowly big ten football program, I often do the same, but that doesn’t make it any less pathetic.

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I've been a fan of civil war history since I was a child. I don't lament the loss, I just enjoy the history. Always have. A college football metaphor is far too simple a comparison.

Losing a war=/=Losing your in your weak arse conference


Bitch

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A tactician truly ahead of his time. I often wonder how history would treat him had he chosen to fight for the Union.

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Lee truly was one of the greatest military commanders of all time. But what made him a great American was what he did after the war. As I alluded to in my first post what he is remembered for now is only what he did between 1861 and 1865. But what should be taught along with that is what he did after 1865.

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But what should be taught along with that is what he did after 1865.

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His work reconciling differences via W and L University?

Arnet you supposedly from Cali?

How do you have any southern will

Beyond embarrassing and truly regrettable that the first GOP President ever was a tyrannical and genocidal monster like Abe Lincoln.

If the GOP was really honest with itself, it would come to understand and accept that the birth of the monstrous blob we know today as the American Federal Government started with Lincoln and was wholly his creation.

And then start treating him accordingly.

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Do you southerners ever feel weird reliving the battles of a lost war? I must admit, as the fan of a lowly big ten football program, I often do the same, but that doesn’t make it any less pathetic.

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Would you really ever forget your enemy bringing the war to civilians like your wife and children while you were away fighting for your country?

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Philip Sheridan surveyed his awful handwork with satisfaction.

Plumes of black smoke smudged the Shenandoah Valley’s fairytale landscape of rolling green hills and brooks. In places, yellow flames could be seen shooting from a barn’s gambrel roof or racing through a grain field. Distance muted the crackle of burning fires, the crash of barns and outbuildings collapsing in heaps of charred timbers, and the cries of women and children as the bluecoats shot down their livestock.

Ulysses Grant had ordered the destruction in his initial instructions to Sheridan. “Nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return,”

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the birth of the monstrous blob we know today as the American Federal Government started with Lincoln and was wholly his creation.

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Yes but that was "Wartime Lincoln". We never got a chance to see what a "Peacetime Lincoln" would look like.

I regret that he was killed before we had a chance to find out.

Also, I regret that the South seceded and took up arms without negotiating with Lincoln and Congress. The South almost certainly could have kept slavery for a good bit longer. And abolished it over time, under very generous terms.

Secession was a bad decision. A snap judgment that plunged the South into a war it wasn't prepared for. And a result that doomed it to reaping the whirlwind of its mistake.