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Stillness at Appomattox

If people think Viet Nam was lunacy, and it was, the U.S. Civil War was worse.
 
Seventy-seven years to the day later, US General Edward P. King would surrender 15,000 US and 60,000 Filipino solders to the Japanese, ending the Battle of Bataan. The Bataan death march would begin shortly thereafter and Corregidor would fall within a month.

Dean
 
A lot of people gave their all in the war of aggression against the south.
The slaves were freed and the people should be grateful to the ones that freed them.
 
Where we worked today the 54 Massachusetts marched through to attack Battery Wagner as seen in the movie Glory. They marched North with the ocean on there right instead of what was portrayed in the movie.
Ron
 
"Stillness at Appomattox"......Jerry, you are apparently a Bruce Catton fan also. His verbal depiction of that tableau on that day was spot-on in its detail, accuracy and mood. I recall particularly him pointing out that the Confederate army had been so decimated that their regimental flags were almost shoulder-to-shoulder in that final stand.

An interesting side-bar to the events of the day that's worth looking up---the formal capitulation by Confederate General John Gordon. He did it with a flourish, to say the least.
 
Wife and I went yesterday. Glad to see so many people from different states and other countries.

This is something everyone should know about and never forget.

The local news stations are doing good coverage. Haven't seen any national news on it yet.

An interview with some reenactors brought out the fact that the weather is very much like that day 150 years ago. Cloudy with light drizzle and cool. But no one is complaining about some mud.

Hard to believe this many people are going in and out of the small town of Appomattox. Most folks visiting are staying in Lynchburg and catch a shuttle bus to Appomattox for the event and back.

GG grandfather was killed in Gettysburg and a 14 of past family were trained at Stanton Hill Artillery and were sent to Wilmington NC.
 
free some , subjugate others , if you are forced to join something your never free . we're still fighting a tyrannical
federal government.
 
1 year ago this Saturday, we flew to DC, then rented a car for the week and went to my sister's place South of Richmond. On Sunday they drove us to Appomattox-very eerie being there. One detail I remember is one fellow had been fighting with the Confederates from day one, but took a bullet there just 1 hour before the surrender!
 
I often wonder if people really remember what it was for? You hear so much about how it was to end slavery but what about the issue of states rights vs federal government?
 
Bingo.

Though we have been taught that the civil war was fought about slavery, the fundamental issue was states rights.

Dean
 
I hope I don't start a war here but I wonder what we as citizens lost when Lee surrendered that day. It always makes me wonder how somebody in Washington dc can decide how I farm do they know what's good farming practice in one area might not work on my farm
 
Over 750,000 dead. It was 1/6th of the American population at the time. Today it would be OVER 6 million!
 
The war at it's most basic level was about money and whether an oligarchy in the South, large cotton plantations and slave growers and in the North, cotton traders and mill owners, could enslave humans for their benefit. Cotton was the most important enterprise in the US and England at the time and a small few where getting and maintaining enormous wealth by the institution.
 

And now it is the political class that enslaves all the rest of us while they get wealthy. The wrong side won that war.
 
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And now it is the political class that enslaves all the rest of us while they get wealthy. The wrong side won that war.
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Having been raised in Minnesota I received a different view of the Civil War versus what I learned about the War Between the States when I went to college in Texas. The first thing I learned was the was isn't over yet.
 
(quoted from post at 13:16:24 04/10/15) The war at it's most basic level was about money and whether an oligarchy in the South, large cotton plantations and slave growers and in the North, cotton traders and mill owners, could enslave humans for their benefit. Cotton was the most important enterprise in the US and England at the time and a small few where getting and maintaining enormous wealth by the institution.
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Wow, complete over simplification that ignores the elephant in the room- States rights at a time when it was "these united States" vs. "The United States". Sorry, but it was more than just money.
 
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