Tuesday, April 8, 2014

April 8, 1865 & 1913


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 On 8 April 1865 Confederate General Richard Taylor, son of President Taylor, routed the Yankees in the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana and ended their Red River Campaign. Taylor was not only an effective & competent general, he also wrote the most engaging & charming memoir of the war, Destruction & Reconstruction. Having grown up in Washington, he knew everybody on both sides.

On 8 April 1913 the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution requiring direct popular election of senators was ratified, thus destroying what was left of the Constitution by destroying states' representation as states in the Congress. What shreds of the Constitution Lincoln's revolution left, the Progressive era pulverized, then the New Deal blew away the dust.

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