wrangler94
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- May 10, 2014
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- North Carolina
I'm a long time civil war buff, did reenacting in high school, got countless books on the war and read profusely about it. My history teacher in high school actually got me to teach that section because I raised my hand and corrected him so much. As a new guy I might ruffle feathers, but in my lurking tonight I noticed lots of complaints about G&G being too much about Stonewall and saw people say they didn't like Stonewall? I'm curious as to why (I can see not liking G&G, it is long with way too much backstory and not enough tactics for my taste) but not liking Stonewall? I'd like to hear more.
Also in my lurking I saw the thread about how slavery absolutely started the war. That is false. Winners write history books. Almost every other nation on Earth ended slavery without firing a shot. All Lincoln had to do was get congress to stop paying people to catch slaves. If you do research you'll also find that the south was phasing out slavery even before the war but the rich 1% had laws made banning releasing your slaves, because it made it too difficult to tell who was a runaway and who was freed.
The north had slaves, not to the extent of the south, but they had them, and the emancipation proclamation didn't free a single slave in territories Lincoln had control over. If you want to talk about slavery, how about the fact that old honest Abe started the draft and forced hundreds of thousands of Americans to go die in war, or else be shot for draft dodging. Also, Abe suspended habeus corpus and imprisoned 30,000 war protestors, and started a war without congressional approval.
The civil war was about an oppressive central government, the same reason the founding fathers fought Britain.
Hope I didn't ruffle too many feathers on my first post. Thanks
Also in my lurking I saw the thread about how slavery absolutely started the war. That is false. Winners write history books. Almost every other nation on Earth ended slavery without firing a shot. All Lincoln had to do was get congress to stop paying people to catch slaves. If you do research you'll also find that the south was phasing out slavery even before the war but the rich 1% had laws made banning releasing your slaves, because it made it too difficult to tell who was a runaway and who was freed.
The north had slaves, not to the extent of the south, but they had them, and the emancipation proclamation didn't free a single slave in territories Lincoln had control over. If you want to talk about slavery, how about the fact that old honest Abe started the draft and forced hundreds of thousands of Americans to go die in war, or else be shot for draft dodging. Also, Abe suspended habeus corpus and imprisoned 30,000 war protestors, and started a war without congressional approval.
The civil war was about an oppressive central government, the same reason the founding fathers fought Britain.
Hope I didn't ruffle too many feathers on my first post. Thanks
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