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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:16:16 PM EST
I had a similar thread about WW2 and it extended longer than Lee's wagon train to Gettysburg.
 Let's hear them.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:20:58 PM EST
Lincoln's plan after emancipating slaves and winning the war was to deport them all to Africa.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:22:24 PM EST
Sherman was right
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:23:02 PM EST
Both sides had an air force consisting of hot air balloons.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:23:45 PM EST
The South lost still
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:23:50 PM EST
Robert E. Lee lead a detachment of US Marines against John Brown. John Brown’s trial was the first for Treason in the United States and was also the first trial to gain national attention due to the Telegraph.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:25:13 PM EST
The one that we have already fought or the one that is upcoming?
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:26:11 PM EST
[Last Edit: 2/22/2021 9:27:41 PM EST by Alnen123]
The north started it.
The south just wanted states to have their own power. Lincoln was indifferent toward slavery. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:27:31 PM EST
You did not want to be in the Confederate Submarine Service.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:27:39 PM EST
Although the Union won the Civil War against the slaveholding Confederacy, blacks in the 21st Century expect the Union to pay reparations for their ancestors' slavery.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:28:45 PM EST
The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:28:56 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By RobertL: You did not want to be in the Confederate Submarine Service. The Confederate submarine is still around so at least it was a well built deathtrap.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:29:59 PM EST
The next civil war is gonna make the last civil war look like an episode of Mr Rogers Neighborhood.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:30:25 PM EST
If Lee had listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg, we’d be paying our taxes to Richmond.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:30:48 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Alnen123: The north started it. The south just wanted states to have their own power. Lincoln was indifferent toward slavery. Lol |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:30:58 PM EST
During a dark, bloody time in America, someone thought a tasty steak sauce was needed. A1 became commercially distributed.
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SC, USA
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:31:41 PM EST
The good guys lost.
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USA
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:32:27 PM EST
Infection & infectious disease killed more on both sides than actual battle, giving rise to the NIH & Team Fauci.
All hail, typhoid, Salmonella, wound infection, dysentery & malaria!!! Long live Faucian antisepsis! Masks, all around! |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:32:35 PM EST
Prior to the Civil War, Mississippi was the richest state in the United States.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:32:52 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By GHILLIE: During a dark, bloody time in America, someone thought a tasty steak sauce was needed. A1 became commercially distributed. A1 sauce is from England... |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:32:55 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By AKengineer: The Confederate submarine is still around so at least it was a well built deathtrap. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AKengineer: Originally Posted By RobertL: You did not want to be in the Confederate Submarine Service. The Confederate submarine is still around so at least it was a well built deathtrap. The third crew (after it had been sunk and salvaged twice) must have been some brave souls. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:34:10 PM EST
The Civil War was going to start with the name “Pickens” no matter what. Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens were in federal possession. Fort Pickens was named for the Revolutionary war hero Andrew Pickens. Lincoln forced a reinforcement of both forts and the South Carolina Governor ordered Gen PGT Beauregard to open fire and take the fort. It could have very well occurred in Pensacola at Fort Pickens. The South Carolina governors name? Francis Pickens. The grandson of the Fort Pickens namesake.
Fort Pickens remained in federal control through out the entire war. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:35:07 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By sarge38624: Prior to the Civil War, Mississippi was the richest state in the United States. I was going to post this. They are probably going to burn all the old mansions down with the way the country is headed. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:35:35 PM EST
Slavery was not the root cause. The merrel tarrif was.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:36:39 PM EST
The Civil War (aka The War of Northern Aggression) was the first war in recorded history to use mechanized transport - the railroads. Multiple companies, and even an entire battalion, could be moved hundreds of miles overnight. This mobility radically changed strategy, and profoundly affected the outcome of the war.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:36:52 PM EST
The USS Monitor was the first American ship to have an sub-surface toilet. Normally crew members hung their azz over the side to relieve themselves.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:38:07 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Troutman84: If Lee had listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg, we’d be paying our taxes to Richmond. Not really. He would have run into union Corps marching up to Gettysburg. The flank was not as open as he believed it was. Lincoln threatened to trow the SCOTUS in jail when they ruled against him. Lincoln imprisoned people who were vocal in their support of the South. No person was ever imprisoned for such activity in the south. The CSA would have failed of it's own accord. Many governor purposely withheld supplies and troops from the ANV when it needed them most. They were as much as war againstitself as it was the north. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:38:25 PM EST
Female nurses were paid $.40 per day plus rations and transportation.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:38:45 PM EST
The South was so desperate for lead to make bullets due to blockades that in some cities and towns they stripped houses of any lead sheathing or plumbing, and dug up lead sewer pipes.
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ME, USA
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:40:08 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By CenterMass762: A1 sauce is from England... UH, NO. |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:41:06 PM EST
[Last Edit: 2/22/2021 9:42:24 PM EST by wmagrush]
Wilmer McLean was mad that the first civil war battle started on his farm in Manassas, so he moved to Appomattox to get away from the war. It ended on his farm, too.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:42:02 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By CenterMass762: Lincoln's plan after emancipating slaves and winning the war was to deport them all to Africa. That absolutely would have been the right thing to do. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:42:30 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Troutman84: If Lee had listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg, we’d be paying our taxes to Richmond. LOL no. The South's objective was not to conquer the North. It only wanted independence for itself. |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:43:01 PM EST
I had family who was fighting for the Union and to free enslaved Africans. Somebody owes me reparations for my families sacrifice.
kwg |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:43:42 PM EST
It basically negated the previous 20 years of settler expansion into the Plains Indians territories out west
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:43:56 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By 1Devildog: The South was so desperate for lead to make bullets due to blockades that in some cities and towns they stripped houses of any lead sheathing or plumbing, and dug up lead sewer pipes. Confederate soldiers were paid to pick up spent minie balls. Not that the pay was much but it was needed for recasting as fresh minie balls. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:44:57 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By kwg020: I had family who was fighting for the Union and to free enslaved Africans. Somebody owes me reparations for my families sacrifice. kwg You would think after watching post WW1 Germany people would think better of forcing people to pay reparations for losing a war. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:45:46 PM EST
The only 2 people that was hanged for war crimes was the commander of Andersonville, and TN soldier named Champ Ferguson.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:46:08 PM EST
Had Stonewall not died the good guys might have won
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:47:02 PM EST
[Last Edit: 2/22/2021 9:52:32 PM EST by raven]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AKengineer: You would think after watching post WW1 Germany people would think better of forcing people to pay reparations for losing a war. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AKengineer: Originally Posted By kwg020: I had family who was fighting for the Union and to free enslaved Africans. Somebody owes me reparations for my families sacrifice. kwg You would think after watching post WW1 Germany people would think better of forcing people to pay reparations for losing a war. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:47:21 PM EST
Diversity is and old, old wooden ship used in the Civil War
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:47:46 PM EST
[Last Edit: 2/22/2021 9:49:26 PM EST by CenterMass762]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jss227: UH, NO.  Attached Filehttp://letslookagain.com/2014/10/who-were-brand-co/ |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:48:17 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By 32ACP: Infection & infectious disease killed more on both sides than actual battle, giving rise to the NIH & Team Fauci. All hail, typhoid, Salmonella, wound infection, dysentery & malaria!!! Long live Faucian antisepsis! Masks, all around! And on a related note, one of the leading causes of death in the United States throughout the 19th Century and well into the early 20th was infection from tooth decay spreading to the brain. |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:48:21 PM EST
No facts but I do own the last bed and nightstand Gen. Polk slept on the night before he was cut in two by Union arty. Pretty good story with it too. I have a long family history in GA.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:48:22 PM EST
While both sides had black troops. The north only paid free blacks a fraction of whites' salary. The south paid freed blacks at parity.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:49:00 PM EST
General Henry Hopkins Sibley who led the ill fated expedition to capture Fort Union in New Mexico greatest achievement was post-war when he was memorialized in the Sergio Leone movie, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. "Sibley, he looks dead." Grant was still a nobody in 1862 and hardly known (except to West Point graduates) and Lee was also still a nobody. Lee didn't even command the Army of Northern Virginia yet.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:49:47 PM EST
[Last Edit: 2/22/2021 9:51:09 PM EST by raven]
What did Faulkner say? Something like you never get over history.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." -William Faulkner |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:50:06 PM EST
The Confederates are traitors and losers... and there should not be military bases named after them.
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IA, USA
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:50:16 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By AKengineer: You would think after watching post WW1 Germany people would think better of forcing people to pay reparations for losing a war. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AKengineer: Originally Posted By kwg020: I had family who was fighting for the Union and to free enslaved Africans. Somebody owes me reparations for my families sacrifice. kwg You would think after watching post WW1 Germany people would think better of forcing people to pay reparations for losing a war. I agree. But, some folks in congress think we owe all black Americans reparations for having their ancestors sent here against their will so why not pay me for having my ancestors free them ?? I guess it would be a wash. kwg |
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:50:41 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By FLchuck8: While both sides had black troops. The north only paid free blacks a fraction of whites' salary. The south paid freed blacks at parity. Yeah, but Confederate monthly $11 wasn't worth sh*t in 1865. It wouldn't even buy you a breakfast.
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Posted: 2/22/2021 9:51:40 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By GAshooter11: No facts but I do own the last bed and nightstand Gen. Polk slept on the night before he was cut in two by Union arty. Pretty good story with it too. I have a long family history in GA. And you think you can just tell us that without posting pictures?! C'mon man! |
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