Happy Confederate Surrender Day!

And by the end of the War for Southern Independence, the South was putting up tarps on the front lines.

 

You kick the crap out of it, if you're a Pennsylvanian in 1863.

 

I honestly don’t think we could have held off Germany and Japan in the 1940s if we were split as a country.

 

Who fired the first shots? Who said, "The forts are ours now?"

 

One of my ancestors was conscripted off his homestead in the Ozarks by the Confederates. He didn’t even know a war was happening. He deserted and went back to farming the rockiest damn 40 acres you’d ever see.

 

The average soldier didn’t take the South to war. The slave-owning aristocracy did. ... Specifically and only to preserve the right to own slaves.

Shocker: Rich men started a war; poor men did the fighting.

 

Where there is a high school named for Nathan Bedford Forrest

 

Maybe we wouldn't have been financing Germany so well pre-1940 if we had been split as a country.

Nazis rode to war on GM wheels


(and we weren't needed to hold off Germany anyway. Its defeat was ensured long before D-Day)

 

Was.

It’s Westside High School now. Feeder middle schools are still named for Jeb Stuart and Jefferson Davis, though.

 

"Once the war is over the horror of the Yankee Enemy, except for those that sadly lost a family member or friend, must be quickly forgotten. Our Economy will BOOM, perhaps like never before!!!"
-- Jefferson Davis, February 1865 letter to VP Alexander Stephens

 

"There shalt not be many casualties in this war. The common dysentry is much worse," -- President Jefferson Davis.

 

"It is my solemn held belief that one day the Union will just disappear. One day, like a miracle bestowed by God, they will just be gone from the field."

-Jefferson Davis, June 30, 1863