re: Which state had the best fighters/military units in the civil war?

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e was an incredible man. He was against slavery which has seemingly been forgotten by a lot of folks.

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As was Robert E. Lee. Imagine making it through 4 years at West Point without a single demerit. A piece of lint on your uniform? Demerit. Smudge on a belt buckle? Demerit. Wrinkle in your bunk? Demerit. Lee was truly an incredible man.

They were all fricking shitty fighters. They stood in lines and shot at each other with rifles muskets until one side ran out of men. Doesn’t exactly take a skilled soldier to do that shite.

One of the most real and moving things you will watch.

Every slap dick saying the union was better should see this too. A lot of these men on both sides fought together before this war. Each had a mutual respect for the other.

For the South, it’s got to be Virginia, specifically the Stonewall Brigade, which was made up of Virginia regiments.

For the North, Is say the Iron Brigade which was made up of regiments mostly from Wisconsin, but also Michigan, and Indiana.

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Got an ancestor that was a lieutenant in the 27th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Got captured in Vicksburg. We still have his parole papers.

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My 2nd great-grandfather was captured in Vicksburg also. He was paroled in Vienna, Louisiana (small town right above Ruston).

In the Wiki page for Vienna, LA it states:

"Vienna is a town in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 424 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area.
During the American Civil War, Confederate troops drilled at a new camp established in 1862 in Vienna. Later in the war, a parolee camp was established at Vienna."

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The Yanks were the real men in that war. Bent the South over and had their way.

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Yea. The north was so dominant, the south invaded as far as Pennsylvania, walked around for a while at will, dragged the war in for four years, and had northern states begging Lincoln to sue for peace for a while.

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If you don’t care, why post in this thread? There’s lots of other threads to choose from. You do realize you don’t have to click on or participate in threads that don’t interest you, right?

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Because letting people know how much you don’t care is the OT’s form of virtue signaling.

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I'm probably wrong but i think the confederates used a fair amount of guerrilla tactics. Tactics union forces didn't often use.

That kinda makes them a bit on the badass side.

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Army War College thesis on unconvetional warfare during the civil war

They made the movie Glory about a black regiment, so I assume they were the best. I mean they made a movie about them so they must have been the best.