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I want to be one of Longstreet's Staff Officer's maybe Assistant Adjutant General
Have you ever been a real Staff Officer? I only ask because I wonder why you think you think you would make a great staff officer.
I want to be one of Longstreet's Staff Officer's maybe Assistant Adjutant General
I am an educator I feel my knowledge and education would get me a position on a General's StaffHave you ever been a real Staff Officer? I only ask because I wonder why you think you think you would make a great staff officer.
I wouldn't call people who fight to enslave their fellow Southerners Patriots. I have mentioned them before and we're talking about a small amount of men.Lefty, Imagined that, Southern Patriots in your home town.
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I am an educator I feel my knowledge and education would get me a position on a General's Staff
Being a Brit I’d have to be an observer, I’d probably drink a lot of tea and enjoy the fact that I was neutral, I’d also travel around for a bit, maybe chill out with Grant over a whiskey and then hop over to the other side and enjoy a shad bake and a glass of Champaign with Pickett. You know, war is terribly good fun when you don’t have to get involved...what what.
I thought being a generals son got one on a general staff back thenI am an educator I feel my knowledge and education would get me a position on a General's Staff
Aren't the Southern born USCT soldiers "Southerners" what the Unionist soldiers many who defected from the Confederate Army?Originally from Arkansas, now living in Georgia. The South, of course!!!
I wouldn't call Union soldiers who enlisted to serve a stated goal of preserving slavery patriots either then, and they were a rather large amount of men.I wouldn't call people who fight to enslave their fellow Southerners Patriots. I have mentioned them before and we're talking about a small amount of men.
Leftyhunter
After the Emancipation Proclamation all Union soldiers were fighting to free slaves in the South. After the EP slavery was not going to last to long in the rest of the US.I wouldn't call Union soldiers who enlisted to serve a stated goal of preserving slavery patriots either then, and they were a rather large amount of men.
As i pointed out earlier if one didn't want to defend slavery, running to Canada was the option.
Odd I always had the impression most enlisted in the first two years of the war......when both the president and congress had stated the goal wasn't to end slavery........Later in the war, they were being drafted...........After the Emancipation Proclamation all Union soldiers were fighting to free slaves in the South. After the EP slavery was not going to last to long in the rest of the US.
Leftyhunter
No not at all. From that same article 24k North Carolina soldiers deserted and five thousand black North Carolina men joined the USCT. Also the article notes many North Carolina troops were drafted . We also know there were Unionist guerrillas in Western North Carolina.
Add it all up and that's over thirty thousand men not a small percentage of North Carolina manpower.
Leftyhunter
Seems many more Union soldiers deserted than Confederate did. Ouch!No not at all. From that same article 24k North Carolina soldiers deserted and five thousand black North Carolina men joined the USCT. Also the article notes many North Carolina troops were drafted . We also know there were Unionist guerrillas in Western North Carolina.
Add it all up and that's over thirty thousand men not a small percentage of North Carolina manpower.
Leftyhunter