rumitoid

(The following is all about a Republican Senate candidate, Chris McDaniel, ridiculous and revisionist praise of Lee the t*****r and s***eholder looking to appeal to W***e S*********ts to get v**es from part of Trump's base.) http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/402454-gop-senate-candidate-doubles-down-on-robert-e-lee-despite-twitter-poll

My older brother was a Civil War buff: he made me the South, even bought a Confederate hat for me to wear, which I wore proudly and frequently. We would play the board game "Gettysburg" and I was always the South. ..and always lost, even with his help. Maybe when I was around twelve, some company came out with facsimile Confederate money, and I would spend part of my allowance each week to build up a treasury. I imagined time-traveling back to 1861 to help the CSA. For probably thirty years I was partial to the South, before I really took an interest and learned the t***h. It wasn't about State Rights.

Every state that seceded mentioned s***ery as the cause in their declarations of secession. Lee’s beloved Virginia was no different, accusing the federal government of “perverting” its powers “not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern S***eholding States.” Lee’s decision to fight for the South can only be described as a choice to fight for the continued existence of human bondage in America—even though for the Union, it was not at first a war for emancipation.

About my beloved Lee:
First, the biggest myth busted: he was a terrible strategist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/19/the-t***h-about-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee-he-wasnt-very-good-at-his-job/?utm_term=.3d6dcfd85fb5

During his invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia ens***ed free b****s and brought them back to the South as property. Pryor writes that “evidence links virtually every infantry and cavalry unit in Lee’s army” with the abduction of free b***k A******ns, “with the activity under the supervision of senior officers.”

Soldiers under Lee’s command at the Battle of the Crater in 1864 massacred black Union soldiers who tried to surrender. Then, in a spectacle hatched by Lee’s senior corps commander A.P. Hill, the Confederates paraded the Union survivors through the streets of Petersburg to the slurs and jeers of the southern crowd. Lee never discouraged such behavior. As the historian Richard Slotkin wrote in No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, “his silence was permissive.”

The presence of black soldiers on the field of battle shattered every myth the South’s s***e empire was built on: the happy docility of s***es, their intellectual inferiority, their cowardice, their inability to compete with w****s. As Pryor writes, “fighting against brave and competent African Americans challenged every underlying tenet of southern society.” The Confederate response to this challenge was to visit every possible atrocity and cruelty upon black soldiers whenever possible, from ens***ement to execution.

Robert Edward Lee --- the Virginian who owned and exploited Black people; helped steal half of Mexico during the U.S.-Mexican War; led the attack on abolitionist hero John Brown at Harper’s Ferry; deserted the Union Army; took up arms against the country he had sworn to defend in order to preserve the immensely profitable system of chattel s***ery; and lost the Civil War by getting his reactionary butt decisively kicked by a force that included 200,000 armed people of African descent --- was born on Jan. 19, 1807, in Stratford, Va.
http://www.richmond.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12540/index.php

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/19/the-t***h-about-confederate-gen-robert-e-lee-he-wasnt-very-good-at-his-job/?utm_term=.3d6dcfd85fb5

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5310121&itype=CMSID

Carol Kelly

In the end, all thing considered, it WAS about States Rights. The State’s right to decide for themselves what they wanted n all things, not just s***ery. That was only part of the problem. Robert E. Lee had no s***es, both US Grant and Abraham Lincoln did own s***es. U.S. Grant only freed his last S***e after emancipation. Lincoln was the most d******e President in history. I will never change my theory because as a small child I received my information from those who’d been there. So there!

Carol Kelly

You, Rumitoid, have become so twisted. Visit the National Cemetery in Vicksburg, Ms.
Read the plaques. They are all Yankees, some b****s from Louisiana, not one Confederate
is honored there.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

That is true. If there was a division of the north being opposed to a******n and the south being for it; many would say that the North opposed it because they thought is was immoral rather than being unconstitutional. They would say the war was about a******n rather than the constitutional right of states to decide issues like a******n. Although, I would say, that most in the south were actually fighting for s***ery to remain as opposed to s***ery being a states right, should they so choose.

rumitoid

You are totally wrong. Where did u get such crap?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

rumitoid

No it was not. Every state that seceded stated the right to own s***es as their reason.

rumitoid

If so, And?

rumitoid

Slatten, Encyclopedia of Virginia? There is far more to the story, like taking captured freed s***es from the North and bringing them South.