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...h has been said and in regard to which I am represented as setting forth 'slavery' as the 'cornerstone' of the Confederacy, it is proper for me to state that that speech was extemporaneous. The report...
...inguish between a brigadier, major and lieutenant general? And were there any full generals (four star) in the Confederacy? Obviously to the enlisted men, as well as any officers below the rank of gen...
...ton in the 1870's.
The book you saw takes the extreme view of the number of African Americans who served the Confederacy and if read at all should be done so with a large measure of disbelief....
Arms & Equipment of the Confederacy says .41 on one page and .42 on another. Davis' bio of Jeb Stuart says .52.
...en amendments with the Confederate Constitution. Our Bill of Rights appears to have been incorporated into the Confederacy's Constitution. I find this to be an interesting topic for further research. ...
That general welfare thing is always the kicker. But the slave holders thought the north wouldn't fight, couldn't fight.
That puts them in good company with their ideological successors, the Nazis a
...of the Confederate Government, published by Harcourt Trade Publishers. Professor Davis said the leaders of the Confederacy knew that defeat was imminent long before General Lee surrendered at Appomatt...
... the public library system in Norfolk, Va., is honoring African-Americans who fought and died on behalf of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Robert Harrison, director of the Horace Downing Branc...
This started in another group with a discussion about a doomed Confederacy where I suggested a 'what if' where a Confederate Gerard Bull develops a cannon capable of launching a rocket assisted shell
...inating responses to my question about the Peninsular Campaign. I would now like to ask why the capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond. Was this offered to Virginia ...
...nts General Forrest must be counted as one of the most accomplished commanders and outstanding generals of the Confederacy. I have seen posts on this and other civil war groups assailing General Forre...
How much revenue did the Federal government raise from the states that became the Confederacy and how much from the other states. Either absolute numbers or percentages will do fine.
Thanking in adv
...ave been defeated which would have been an invitation for Britain and France to enter and send supplies to the Confederacy and maybe even enter the war
What is your opinion?...
...ch is just With humble gratitude and adoration,acknowledging the Providence which has so visibly protected the Confederacy during its brief but eventful career,to Thee O God,I trustingly commit myself...
... Georgia and leave the Carolinas alone? Could he retake Missisippi easily and combine the now two parts of the Confederacy into one combined part? Maybe from here he could walk towards New Orleans too...
...bout a general's competence we may as well shut this ng down.
If Lee had had Lincoln as the president of the Confederacy he would have won the war before it started.
Let me give a present context ...
...hanged that. The whole PA campaign seems to me to be more like a long shot than the so called High Tide of the Confederacy. In 1862, Bragg had a very good chance of succeeding in his endeavors and con...
...s for Southern victory and independence in the ACW involves British and French intervention on the side of the Confederacy. Turtledove's recent series seems to follow this line (after a Rebel victory ...
...en rehashed many times over the years,but I believe that my opinion is valid. because:the odds confronting the Confederacy were no worse than those that confronted the 13 Colonies at the beginning of ...
... just powers from the consent of the governed..'
When the federal government took to conquering the Southern Confederacy by bayonet, it openly rejected and scorned in perpetuity the principle of gov...
Does anyone know of a good reference on the history of Iowans who served in Confederate units? Thank you.
...he amendment. Lincoln, or the Unites States, couldn't have cared less about slavery. What they wanted from the Confederacy was the tax revenue, land, rice, sugar, cotton, indigo, tobbaco, and navigati...
...ral? Was there a 'Geneva Convention' of prisoner interrogation for the CW?
For example, Wiley Sword, in 'The Confederacy's Last Hurrah,' states that in the Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville campai...
I think the significant fact is that the US started the war to gain something and ended it by agreeing to status quo ante bellum.
Lincoln went to war to restore the Union. If, after winning spectacu
The Presentist Fallacy. You are applying contemporary P.C. standards to what was 141 years ago. In those days, few gave a hoot or a damn about the welfare of black folks over and above their instrumen
Some years ago I spent some time in the Vicksburg Battlefield
They were not complaining, they were honoring their dead sons for dying to keep their country from being torn apart.
You mentioned your family and community but not your country. The men of the North went to war to prevent their country from being destroyed. To preserve what they and many many others considered a gr
True maybe but perhaps a bit academic as without the one-party sytem there might well have been no CSA in the first place
Had the Whig party still existed it would surely have opposed secession - an
Well, the CS had to resort to conscription in 1862 - a year before the Union did so. This might suggest that southern support for the was was less solid than northern, but then again it might just be
...ing a paper for a college history class, and I would like to get some of your opinions/views on:
How did the Confederacy hold out against the Union for four years? Why/How did the Confederacy eventu...
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