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In reply to the discussion: ...and then a man rode through the lines bearing a white flag. [View all]bvf
(6,604 posts)25. If you haven't already
try to track down a copy of "Rednecks," by Randy Newman.
It makes your point spectacularly well, and it's especially meaningful to me since I grew up across town from the Hough riots.
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Intersting thing about Wilmer McLean, who owned the house where Lee signed the surrender papers ...
Martin Eden
Apr 2015
#17
My great-great grandfather, Albert W. Gallatin, was also at Appomattox Court House that day too,
MgtPA
Apr 2015
#41
I've lived in NJ, NY and MA. Growing up, no one spoke of the civil war as such.
merrily
Apr 2015
#64
And brain-dead rednecks have been drawling ever since: "Th'Saouth will rahse agin!"
Aristus
Apr 2015
#4
I know. My heart goes out to everyone living in an oasis of sanity in that festering hell-hole
Aristus
Apr 2015
#54
That would make a GREAT bumper sticker, DFW. I wish that statement could go viral.
loudsue
Apr 2015
#96
I would say something but I'm sure it would break the TOS. And I do love MY South.
Lochloosa
Apr 2015
#26
Kind of like Jews v Muslims, Sunni v Shia, Protestants v Catholics, or black v white
world wide wally
Apr 2015
#6
Abraham Lincoln did NOT 'promise the immediate Emancipation Proclamation.' Lincoln proposed
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#47
Lincoln was not an 'abolitionist' before being elected. Nor did Lincoln advocate for
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#85
You are being extremely unfair to Lincoln and his record. I would suggest you start by
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#84
The "Gettysburg Address," imo, is one of the 2-3 greatest speeches in the
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#100
your values are defined by your behavior - nothing noble about fighting for slavery nt
msongs
Apr 2015
#19
Many (if not most) believed they were fighting for their homes and families.
Martin Eden
Apr 2015
#21
This could and should be its own OP, imo. Same could be said about American soldiers
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#88
...and we have been fighting that war, in one fashion or another, ever since n/t
jaysunb
Apr 2015
#27
My great great uncle August enlisted with the 1st Missouri Infantry, Company A, mustered...
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2015
#36
Yes, tragic AND ironic. So many rural small towns lost most of their able-bodied young men
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2015
#111
That is one hell of a story (and one I hope you fine-tune and publish elsewhere besides
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#101
Are you suggesting that the 'worst elements' weren't already 'radicalized' before
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2015
#104
Which two posts demonstrate that we're still fighting Reconstruction as well.
malthaussen
Apr 2015
#108
'Surrender your weapons, go in peace, and keep it that way'. Short and sweet.
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2015
#109