Happy Confederate Surrender Day!

[goalmouth]

End of the military portion of The War of Northern Aggression

 

[swingline]

Lee and his henchmen should have been hanged as traitors. Every last one of them.

 

[Starman]

Too bad Sherman didn't have the atomic bomb.

 

[goalmouth]

Arlington National Cemetery is built on Lee's plantation, originally seized by the Union.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Thoughts and prayers for Trumpists.

 

[BTExpress]

Lee and his henchmen should have been hanged as traitors. Every last one of them.

Absolutely!

And for consistency's sake, this also applies to rebel factions in Libya, Syria, Venezuela, etc.?

 

[Starman]

Arlington National Cemetery is built on Lee's plantation, originally seized by the Union.

Lee is buried at Washington and Lee University, some 185 miles from Arlington.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

SEC stands for SECond Place in the Civil War.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Lee and his henchmen should have been hanged as traitors. Every last one of them.

If Lincoln had been assassinated 2 weeks earlier, they might well have been.

 

[Starman]

If Lincoln had been assassinated 2 weeks earlier, they might well have been.

Or if he hadn't been assassinated at all. It's hard to imagine Lincoln, had he been around to see the uprising of the KKK and the Confederate domestic terrorists, just sitting back and letting them run amuck as Andrew Johnson did. Quite quickly I suspect Lincoln would have said, "what the hell did we fight the war for," and sent Grant or Sherman back down with orders to clean out the trash.

 

[swingline]

Absolutely!

And for consistency's sake, this also applies to rebel factions in Libya, Syria, Venezuela, etc.?

So that goes for Washington, Jefferson, Adams too?

 

[heyabbott]

So that goes for Washington, Jefferson, Adams too?

Benjamin Franklin's comment at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

They knew the risks. The confederate scum pussied out. They should have demanded to be executed rather than live with their Former slaves

 

[Vombatus]

This wasn’t the last battle.

 

[BTExpress]

So that goes for Washington, Jefferson, Adams too?

Guess it has to.

Of course, winners write the history and decide who was glorious and who was traitorous.

But our double-standard is maddening. "If we don't like the government under fire (Syria), rebels are good! If we do like the government under fire (Cuba pre-Castro), rebels are bad!"

 

[Vombatus]

Guess it has to.

Of course, winners write the history and decide who was glorious and who was traitorous.

But our double-standard is maddening. "If we don't like the government under fire (Syria), rebels are good! If we do like the government under fire (Cuba pre-Castro), rebels are bad!"

And that’s mainly determined by: businesses, MONEY, and maybe the Mafia. Sometimes actual military interests, but not always.

 

[swingline]

Guess it has to.

Of course, winners write the history and decide who was glorious and who was traitorous.

But our double-standard is maddening. "If we don't like the government under fire (Syria), rebels are good! If we do like the government under fire (Cuba pre-Castro), rebels are bad!"

Double standard is as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[Driftwood]

1. **** most of y'all.
2. Someone should have told Joseph Johnston and the 90,000-man Army of Tennessee and the Virginia ex post facto historians it was surrender day, because the war didn't really end until Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Durham on April 26.
3. The only difference between the Continental Army and the Confederate Army was French intervention.
4. The difference between the Confederate government/aristocracy and the solider in the field is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
5. Let. It. Go. to both sides of the argument.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

1. **** most of y'all.
2. Someone should have told Joseph Johnston and the 90,000-man Army of Tennessee and the Virginia ex post facto historians it was surrender day, because the war didn't really end until Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Durham on April 26.
3. The only difference between the Continental Army and the Confederate Army was French intervention.
4. The difference between the Confederate government/aristocracy and the solider in the field is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
5. Let. It. Go. to both sides of the argument.

1. Whatevs
2. True
3. Militarily-wise, true. Motivational-wise, false.
4. Maybe the soldiers in the field should have told the aristocracy to shove it.
5. One side still has to be dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledging its prime motivation for secession and fighting. The other side won’t let them make excuses. Huge difference.

 

[Driftwood]

1. Whatevs
2. True
3. Militarily-wise, true. Motivational-wise, false.
4. Maybe the soldiers in the field should have told the aristocracy to shove it.
5. One side still has to be dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledging its prime motivation for secession and fighting. The other side won’t let them make excuses. Huge difference.

4. Maybe the solider would have if an invading army hadn't been literally camped on their property.