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Posted on 4/25/14 at 1:29 pm to Dawg in Beaumont
Posted on 4/25/14 at 1:29 pm to Dawg in Beaumont
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Rich man's war, poor man's fight
Sounds like a good bumper-sticker slogan, but certainly not a realistic sentiment held back in 1861.......
....when a newly formed country, the C.S.A., had to actually turn away hundreds of thousands of volunteers for their voluntary army because they didn't have the arms or equipment to keep up with the overwhelming swell of men that wanted to enlist.
**and before you bring it up.... Yes, both sides resorted to conscription eventually, but the numbers of those conscripted vs. those fighting voluntarily were miniscule..
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Posted on 4/25/14 at 4:27 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Jefferson, it all depended on where we're talking about. Charleston? Savannah? Mobile? Memphis? Yes, men lined up in droves. The Choestoe Valley? Those folks still spoke Elizabethan English and thought they'd found "New Ulster". My people had no interest in anyone's war because, frankly, no one had given a damn about them until those people needed cannon fodder. And who's to say the CSA wouldn't have become just as tyrannical as the Federalists? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. frick 'em all. I've got a few acres in a nice little valley, way away from the fruits and nuts and Reids and Boehners of the world. With any luck, I wont have to shoot anyone to keep it that way.
This post was edited on 4/25/14 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 4/25/14 at 8:10 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Jefferson,
I hope my expression didn't come across as pointed only at the confederacy. The union was largely the same story as well.
Neither side was the beautiful gloriously noble warriors that people like to view their historical heros as. I'm sure this will get me painted as a Yankee, I just don't buy into the noble confederacy portrait or the "OMG the South is racist!!!!!!" bullshite.
The civil war was predominantly about political and economic power.
I hope my expression didn't come across as pointed only at the confederacy. The union was largely the same story as well.
Neither side was the beautiful gloriously noble warriors that people like to view their historical heros as. I'm sure this will get me painted as a Yankee, I just don't buy into the noble confederacy portrait or the "OMG the South is racist!!!!!!" bullshite.
The civil war was predominantly about political and economic power.
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