On April 6th I read an article by a thoroughly politically correct gentleman named Charles J. Dean on the website www.al.com dealing with the so-called "end" of the "Civil War." I don't know where Mr. Dean learned his history, but Lenin could not have taught him any better.
Mr. Dean noted in his article: "On April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered his sword and his Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant marking the end of the Civil War." Mr. Dean has swallowed the fiction most of us were programmed with in government schools--namely that Appomattox was the end of the War and that was it.
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Outstanding article.
ReplyDeleteI will not surrender. Ever.
Terry
Fla.
Yes, Sir!
DeleteIt ain't over - it lives and breathes even today. My Granny Lane, who kept me as a child, was born in January of "18 and 90" on a mountaintop farm in Tennessee. She was raised on tales of Sherman, Chattanooga and Chickamagua, first-hand from folk who survived the war,and she shared those tales with me. Maybe when I die, it will end, but not until I share those tales with MY grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteGreat, but you have to write them down also. Anything you have, I would be more than happy to post. Thanks.
DeleteWe live. It lives!
ReplyDeleteYes!
Deletei can see their problem. They lost the war because they were not inclusive enough. Their whole officer corps was a bunch of White guys. No hispanics, No "wise Latinas", No lesbians, No women, No blacks. Looks like a TEA party meeting
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Good one! :)
Delete3,500 Hispanicsmostly Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans (Puerto Rico and Cuba were Spanish colonies) living in the United States joined the war: 2,500 for the Confederacy and 1,000 for the Union. This number increased to 10,000 by the end of the war.
Lee may have surrendered, but my family never did.
ReplyDeleteMy great-grandmothers last breath was cursing the yankees. The last thing she ever said was, "Those damned yankees."
You see, my family had quite a nice spread in Texas - before "Reconstruction". There is a county in Texas that bears the family name, in fact.
Yes, Sir! Here's one.
DeleteMY Great Uncle James Spencer Pippen
My great Uncle, James Spencer Pippen (1st Sgt.) fought with Claiborne's Partisan Rangers, (7th Confederate Cavalry) [See below for short history of unit, kindness of Arleigh Birchler] and the NC 16th Battalion Cavalry being wounded at the end and paroled April 11, 1865, Farmville, Virginia while in the hospital. He had killed many a Yank. His doubled barreled shotgun that he carried all through the War eventually ended up in his Grandson's possession and on the Grandson's (Dr. Spencer Bass) deathbed, he (Dr. Bass) called my cousin, Bill Bass over to his bed stating to get Uncle Spencer's gun, as he wanted to give it to him. Now, Dr. Bass is fully aware that he won't be around much longer, but wants to take care of everything that is important to him. My cousin brings the gun to the bed, thanks him and asks if Uncle Spencer had actually killed any Yankees with it. Dr. Bass struggles up on one elbow and shortly collapses, but not before firmly stating, "I HOPE SO"!!!!!!
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