Tony Stewart
Last weekend, a tragedy on a Sprint car racetrack in NY resulted in the
tragic death of Kevin Ward, Jr. who had gotten out of his car and was hit and
killed by Tony Stewart. The investigation continues, but it did not stop at
least one sports commentator from one of the most idiotic accusations this side
of accusing George Bush being responsible for 911. Here’s the comment from
ESPN’s Colin Cowherd: “It’s really, really part of the South, and it’s an
eye-for-an-eye culture.”
Really? So this guy thinks the death of Kevin Ward is because of a southern
culture? Since Ward is a native of New York and Stewart is from Indiana, I guess
I’m not getting the geographical connection, but as a proud Southerner, I take
offense at some guy whose name rhymes with cow turd trying to blame southerners
for a testosterone fueled feud between two Yankee drivers. Cowherd reveals his
ignorance of southern culture by invoking an eye for an eye as being Southern.
Maybe he should get out more.
If you have a flat tire on a country road in Mississippi, you won’t be
there long before someone in a pickup truck stops to help you change it. People
in Arkansas still pull over to the side of the road so a funeral procession can
go by; A fellow who kills a deer in Georgia will probably give you some of the
meat for your family; catching a mess—yes, we call it a mess of fish means the
neighbors will get some too; total strangers in Tennessee will say hello, and
when people say they will pray for you in South Carolina, they really will. I
don’t know where the goon from ESPN is from, but it ain’t from the south.
If he
wants to make a complete fool of himself, he should come see us and try to show
us how to cook grits, make redeye gravy, run a trotline in Louisiana, set a hook
on a largemouth bass, field dress a deer, or clean a Weatherby 300 mag rifle. He
can explain to us the difference between King James Version and the NIV, sing
Amazing Grace in 4 octaves, and play fiddle in a country band. He can give us
his recipe for a barbecue rub, coach Little League football, tree a coon with a
hound dog, and show us how he calls ducks. If he can’t do that, he ought to
stick with what he knows which clearly is not Southern culture and shut his pie
hole. Bless his heart!
Mike Huckabee
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Andersonville
James King is right that the food shortages afflicting Union POW's held by the Confederates were the fault of the policies of the Lincoln Administration.
This has been affirmed by My ancestor, Major Raphael Jacob Moses, who was
General James Longstreet's Chief of Commissary, responsible for feeding and
supplying his army of 40,000 men.
When Henry Wirz, the former commandant of the Andersonville
Prison in Georgia was put in trial for his life after the war, for starving and
abusing his POW’s, Moses came to his defense. Moses wrote to him, pointing out
that the hungry federal prisoners at Andersonville were receiving the same
provisions as the equally deprived Confederates in the field:
"I only heard a few days ago that you were in prison, charged with cruelty
to the Andersonville prisoners. Heaven knows that if there was ever such a
charge without a shadow of foundation, this is such. Major Allen can prove, and
so can I, that the Andersonville prisoners were supplied from this post with
precisely the same rations as our army in the field…"
As Jerrold Northrop Moore writes in “Confederate Commissary General,”
"Wirz was condemned to death. Just before his execution he was offered a
reprieve in exchange for a statement to convict Jefferson Davis of cruelty to
Federal prisoners of war. Wirz refused and was hanged."
It is shameful, but not surprising, that some in the news media will not
allow the truth to be published about this historical issue.
Lewis Regenstein
regenstein@mindspring.com
Atlanta
Atlanta
I've got a muster roll card showing my GG-grandpa being paid at Andersonville not long after the "Battles for Atlanta". His regiment had been sent to Montgomery, after the battle for "rest and replenishment" of the ranks. The CSA was so strapped for manpower that they sent them 26th/50th Ala. Inf. Reg't.) to Andersonville for a short stint pulling guard duty. The South did the best they could with what they had at that time. In John Ransom's Andersonville Diary, he describes the guards as being as hungry as the prisoners and talks about being treated kindly. He also talks about gangs of union prisoners "(the sorriest lots ever") being the gravest danger in the prison. This was not the case in the union camps such as Camp Chase and Point Lookout where prisoners were intentionally starved and frozen to death. At Camp Chase a huge tower was built just outside the fence where curious civilians, for the price of quarter, could climb up and look at Confederate prisoners. U.S. Grant is to blame for the deaths and poor conditions suffered by many northern and Southron boys and men. After all, it was he who cut out the "prisoner exchange" Regarding Mike Huckabee's excellent comments, "Bully for the governor of Arkansas"!
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