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Dead Gay Romans posted:Everyone should watch the PBS documentary series about the Civil War. It is amazing and highly informative. it's on Netflix too
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WINNINGHARD posted:Why is it hillbillies? do you know any hillbillies? "hillbillies" primarily fought on the Union side and the bulk of them died for their country. a) While the term has primarily been used to refer to Appalachian residents of West Virginia, it has also been used to refer to, for example, residents of the Ozark regions of Missouri and Arkansas. My Q-Face posted:This is true. Hillbillies and Rednecks have some overlap, but are not synonymous. The reason there's a West Virginia is, because the Hillbillies didn't want to fight for the rich Virginians, so they seceded from Virginia and rejoined the Union. b) Your use of "rednecks" is just as much of a problem if you want to take this argument. German immigrant farmers were some of the strongest abolitionists and Union supporters. c) I was clearly using the present tense and referring to the huge number of people who proudly display the traitors' flag today, many of whom live in parts of the country which did not secede in the 1860s including but not limited to Appalachia and the rural Midwest (hillbillies and rednecks).
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# ? Apr 12, 2015 11:37 |
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etalian posted:it's on Netflix too Go watch this now you idiots.
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# ? Apr 12, 2015 11:47 |
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Irradiation posted:Go watch this now you idiots. Ken Burns? no thanks. I was fooled once into watching his hilariously inept take on jazz music.
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Irradiation posted:Go watch this now you idiots. Worth it for Shelby Foote alone. I found Barbara J . Fields pretty insufferable but she didn't ruin the overall product.
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# ? Apr 12, 2015 16:29 |
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I want to learn more about Southern counties seceding. That is totally bad rear end.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 03:31 |
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Jastiger posted:I want to learn more about Southern counties seceding. That is totally bad rear end. Pro-succession sentiment wasn't across the board especially seeing how the rich slaveholder class wasn't loved by all southerners. Not surprising some counties which didn't have any slaves or plantations also didn't gleefully buy into succession from the union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Unionist
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 03:43 |
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Man, FUUUUCK McClennan! Sitting outside Richmond with superior forces for months on end like a loving coward then he has the balls to run against Lincoln in the election. gently caress off.
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dsriggs posted:Man, FUUUUCK McClennan! Sitting outside Richmond with superior forces for months on end like a loving coward then he has the balls to run against Lincoln in the election. gently caress off. his ultimate dick move was when Lincoln went off to meet him at whatever building he was using as his HQ. He's not there so Lincoln and crew decide to wait his return. When he eventually does get back very late at night he is informed by a maid that Lincoln has been waiting all day to see him, his response is to scoff and then go to bed while refusing to meet with the goddamn president of the united states
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etalian posted:Pro-succession sentiment wasn't across the board especially seeing how the rich slaveholder class wasn't loved by all southerners. "secession"
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Dead Gay Romans posted:Everyone should watch the PBS documentary series about the Civil War. It is amazing and highly informative. this one always got me That and the story on Civil War Combat where the one union guy goes to a creek to fill canteens and trips on his way there. When he looks back at what he tripped on it's an exposed skeleton from a previous battle. SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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dsriggs posted:Man, FUUUUCK McClennan! Sitting outside Richmond with superior forces for months on end like a loving coward then he has the balls to run against Lincoln in the election. gently caress off. His greatest contribution of the war was not being so incompetent that he got the Army of the Potomac destroyed; his overbearing caution kept Lee from filling that particular objective, which meant actuallly good generals could take his place down the road getting into bed with Copperheads during the 1864 election, though, was unforgiveable
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Raskolnikov38 posted:his ultimate dick move was when Lincoln went off to meet him at whatever building he was using as his HQ. He's not there so Lincoln and crew decide to wait his return. When he eventually does get back very late at night he is informed by a maid that Lincoln has been waiting all day to see him, his response is to scoff and then go to bed while refusing to meet with the goddamn president of the united states He should have been shot and then hung for treason. I love when people call Lincoln a tyrant, because you can always pull out poo poo-head gen. McClennan, and the fact that Lincoln didn't have him murdered is perhaps the greatest piece of restraint from a man in that kind of position of power ever.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:his ultimate dick move was when Lincoln went off to meet him at whatever building he was using as his HQ. He's not there so Lincoln and crew decide to wait his return. When he eventually does get back very late at night he is informed by a maid that Lincoln has been waiting all day to see him, his response is to scoff and then go to bed while refusing to meet with the goddamn president of the united states That is so crazy, and as the poster above said, crazy how he didn't get tried for treason. I think it likely had more to do with Lincoln needing to show unity and cooperation rather than infighting at the highest levels rather than Lincoln showing such gentlemanly restraint. I do find it ironic how people call Lincoln that "evil tyrant". Tyrant opposed to what, the class of people in the South that literally wanted to OWN people as a basis for a state? I'm pretty sure the guy advocating not-that is the less tyrannical.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 16:23 |
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Well, those people calling Lincoln a tyrant are likely the same ones that call Obama a facist commie and were all for spending any amount of money to bust clinton for his BJ, and the people currently throwing tantrums in office to refuse everything and anything that wasn't proposed by their party McClellan was a miracle worker in the first years of the army. He turned the whole thing from an armed rabble to an actual army. He was just so damned cautious and couldn't be made to see that richmond wasn't a realistic prize like the other retards that followed till Grant. The only thing that saved Meade from loving up was by the time he got involved most of the defensive positions at Gettysburg were already formed, till Sickles went full retard anyways. All Meade had to do was not move and let Lee beat himself to death against the line.
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Jastiger posted:I do find it ironic how people call Lincoln that "evil tyrant". Tyrant opposed to what, the class of people in the South that literally wanted to OWN people as a basis for a state? I'm pretty sure the guy advocating not-that is the less tyrannical. generally the reasoning behind it is for suspending habeas corpus when he had john merryman held at ft mchenry. even the supreme court said he was in the wrong, but it's one of those things where the president ultimately has more leeway in practice than the constitution says also extrajudicial imprisonment's always been a part of who we are so it's frowned upon but it's not like there are any actual repercussions for doing it
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comes along bort posted:generally the reasoning behind it is for suspending habeas corpus when he had john merryman held at ft mchenry. even the supreme court said he was in the wrong, but it's one of those things where the president ultimately has more leeway in practice than the constitution says Ah. I think its relevant that the same folks that cry TYRANNY are the same ones more than happy to have the Northern states extradite slaves to the South again. poo poo, ever since its inception the South has always wanted special privilege to be assholes whether it be to own people or to pass vote ID laws to force Jesus into legislature. Got drat.
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The South is really, really bad. Even today they are a loving drain on the economy as they suck up way more Federal tax money then they give back. They are a major source of the backwater hosed up racist/Jesus poo poo that makes America a laughing stock. They gave us 8 years of a literal retard president in Bush. The South is the worst loving thing to ever happen to America and I pray every day that Gen. Sherman comes back to us like a way cooler 2nd coming of Christ and cleanses America of its cancer that is the south.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 22:35 |
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Dead Gay Romans posted:Let's be honest anyone who kills a bunch of white Southerners is a god drat hero. Jastiger posted:poo poo, ever since its inception the South has always wanted special privilege to be assholes whether it be to own people or to pass vote ID laws to force Jesus into legislature. Got drat. Dead Gay Romans posted:The South is really, really bad. Even today they are a loving drain on the economy as they suck up way more Federal tax money then they give back. They are a major source of the backwater hosed up racist/Jesus poo poo that makes America a laughing stock. They gave us 8 years of a literal retard president in Bush. These chicken-scratch rants contain a shocking amount of hatred. SocketWrench posted:McClellan was a miracle worker in the first years of the army. He turned the whole thing from an armed rabble to an actual army. He was just so damned cautious and couldn't be made to see that richmond wasn't a realistic prize like the other retards that followed till Grant. The only thing that saved Meade from loving up was by the time he got involved most of the defensive positions at Gettysburg were already formed, till Sickles went full retard anyways. All Meade had to do was not move and let Lee beat himself to death against the line. As I recall McClellan did well leading an early campaign into West Virginia, which springboarded him to the command of the Army of the Potomac. He then, as you said, whipped a massive army into shape. Pretty much everything he did after that was marred by the assumption that Lee had way more men than he really did. If Meade had chased down Lee's army following their flight from Gettysburg, it could have been a total defeat for the Confederacy two years before Appomattox. My favorite, though, is General Joseph Hooker's famous "...may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." He was subsequently whipped at Chancellorsville.
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LLCoolJD posted:My favorite, though, is General Joseph Hooker's famous "...may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." He was subsequently whipped at Chancellorsville. pictured: hooker's merciless treatment of Lee
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LLCoolJD posted:These chicken-scratch rants contain a shocking amount of ftfy
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 23:14 |
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Sherman would never have used nukes since he believed in waging war with minimal loss of life on both sides
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 23:16 |
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etalian posted:Sherman would never have used nukes since he believed in waging war with minimal loss of life on both sides A proper victory over the South requires it be burnt to the ground.
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Dead Gay Romans posted:The South is really, really bad. Even today they are a loving drain on the economy as they suck up way more Federal tax money then they give back. They are a major source of the backwater hosed up racist/Jesus poo poo that makes America a laughing stock. They gave us 8 years of a literal retard president in Bush. bush is an even worse creature: a connecticut blueblood pretending to be a retarded texan (a redundancy i know)
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LLCoolJD posted:These chicken-scratch rants contain a shocking amount of hatred. lovely evil things that make life worse for all mankind deserve hatred.
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Dead Gay Romans posted:lovely evil things that make life worse for all mankind deserve hatred. Isn't the truth always somewhere in the middle?
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etalian posted:Sherman would never have used nukes since he believed in waging war with minimal loss of life on both sides yeah sherman's army really didn't do that much to the south, there were very few incidents of killings of civilians and in at least once case a union soldier who raped a southern woman was handed over to the local sheriff and hung. they basically just wrecked the infrastructure with a shockingly low body count; put someone like zhukov or wallenstein in charge of his army and georgia still wouldn't exist basically southerners are pussies
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# ? Apr 14, 2015 20:11 |
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Abraham lincoln 150 years today
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The War Nerd: The Confederates who should’ve been hangedGary Brecher posted:It’s a tricky question: Which representatives of Southern manhood should have danced in the air, come April 1865?
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TEAYCHES posted:The War Nerd: The Confederates who shouldve been hanged should have debaathified the south
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StashAugustine posted:should have debaathified the south nah he explains really well that you keep everyone below colonel and even then only execute the ambitious guys who rose through the ranks fast.. a good comparison would be if we had kept the iraqi army but had done even the smallest amount of intelligence work on how the baath party actually worked and just shot the competent ones
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Harald posted:Abraham lincoln 150 years today Tomorrow, technically. All you John Wilkes Booth fans should party like motherfuckers tonight, though.
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TEAYCHES posted:The War Nerd: The Confederates who should’ve been hanged Brecher spittin' some loving truth up in this thread.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 00:24 |
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Haha, yeah. Good job not ditching the southern states when you had the chance, r-tards. Keep patting yourselves on the back all the way to global extinction.
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Ork of Fiction posted:Haha, yeah. Good job not ditching the southern states when you had the chance, r-tards. Yeah, having a hostile, expansionist, white supremacist slave state occupying our southern border would be real great.
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# ? Apr 15, 2015 01:11 |
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sherman's only mistake was not going far enough
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Stultus Maximus posted:Yeah, having a hostile, expansionist, white supremacist slave state occupying our southern border would be real great. No loving poo poo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle The Civil War wasn't about preserving slavery in the South for the South, even, it was about conquering South America and spreading it there. Slavery was not ever and never would have been a "live and let live" proposition Ork, are you a limey? I guess I would expect that kind of talk from the CSA's most sympathetic ear in world politics ANIME IS BLOOD fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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TEAYCHES posted:The War Nerd: The Confederates who should’ve been hanged Dang this is super interesting! There is a mockumentary called the Confederate States of America. It goes off on some tangents about how racist the South was, and some of the silly hijinx they get into. But one part of it really did stick out to me, and that was their alliance with the axis powers and the expansion of slavery to Cuba and South America. Those were very real propositions that were closer to the mark than they let on. It also had them invading other areas to establish colonies and slave states but they fail because the South was so hosed up and unable to hold onto anything due to the whole slavery and evil empire thing. Still, a winning South that was expansionist would leave the world a very different and much worse place.
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Harald posted:Abraham lincoln 150 years today Saw a review for Ford's Theater today by A. Lincoln. One star. "was murdered here, cannot recommend"
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