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And the support for them by those who would be losing their slaves is virtually nil. That is the issue. Not even the border states were willing to accept compensated emanicipation in the historical past. It would take a dramatic change to even alter that. Quote: Really.... besides slavery what other principles would you give your life for? I think that if slavery was the one and only reason for the CW.... few would have been willing to fight...

I believe this question is better understood by folks who have lived here, in the South, among the descendants of both Owners and Slaves as well as those who were unfortunate enough to have been involved in the fighting. Much change has obviously occurred for the better since I've been around. I was born in 1947. There is still much conflict between races, depending on where you look and who you talk to. As I suspect is the case in much...

Quote: Originally Posted by unionblue Tim, Perhaps as captainrim alludes to in his post above? In your view, was the situation in the 19th United States different from all the other nations that had managed to get rid of slavery without violence? My own view is that the world and nations that did get rid of slavery did not always see that institution "go into the night" without a touch of violence along the way, but without...

Dear NYTram01; It is impossible to fit four years of a Civil War into a DVD movie. Even the DVD Movie Gettysburg ; a three day battle was Swiss Cheesed; as there was so much that happened in those three days, with so many Corps, Divisions, Brigades, Regiments, Battalions, Companies, not to mention the supports by supply, ordnance, artillery, cavalry, staff officers, orderlies, surgeons, musicians that doubled as litter carriers. Same happened...

Quote: Originally Posted by Elennsar Was the KKK a terorist organization? Those who beleive so, please provide sources. "As was to be expected, the Negro freedmen also received attention. Reports came from the southwestern corner of the state in November 1866 that bands of men were going the rounds of Negro cabins at night and seizing their guns, one of the tamer activities for which the Ku Klux Klan soon became famous. For most...

Quote: How many of those movements were in the slave south? I understand that there were more societies in the south than in the north, but that was when it was still safe to talk about it. The atmosphere changed considerably. Quote: I have seen no indication that the Brits were considering a boycott of southern cotton. Didn't, in fact, the Brits take all the southern cotton that could be ran through the blockade? Nor have I, but if...

Quote: Originally Posted by Horace Porter Chill, dude. Not a problem. I don't accept laughing about murder by terrorists as an inside joke. It all depends on which side of the fence you are on. During the Revolutionary War, you want to bet every American Rebel hiding behind trees, etc., that fired on British troops lined up in the open to fight a conventional, European-style type of fight, weren't called everything in the terrorist...

Lincoln had no great confidence in the general goodness of mankind. Which is why the concept of the 'rule of law' was very important to him. Emancipation should be by the individual states, firmly embedded in their constitutions. The states (with Federal assistance) should institute programs to educate and train the freed slaves to assume the responsibilities of full citizenship of their states. As history has shown, this was...

Quote: Originally Posted by captainrlm Yet 3 years before John Brown, a Southern Congressman beat a Senator unconscious while a friend holds up a pistol threatening to shoot anybody who tries to stop this assault. The Congressman returns home to a hero's welcome, receives dozens of new canes as gifts, a celebrity in the South, with little or no censure for his actions from Southern press or politicians. John Brown ended up being hanged...

How was artillery orgainzed under Grant? Is it possible he did not have a person in that position, and that only each brigade or division had its own artillery leader? In terms of his time in the East, would it have been Henry Hunt? I thought he was in charge of artillery of the AoP but I'm not surey what his title was.