Note: there is only one picture of a Confederate soldier
Is that because the confederates didn't like colored people?
Bb
I think it's because the winners get to write history.
I love the joke by Burley Boy but the most likely reason there's only one picture of Rebel Soldiers is because the person making the compilation chose these pictures. Also, as one would expect, there aren't near as many images for us to choose from the South as they had no money and pictures cost money.
Thanks for posting this, LD. I thought it pretty interesting, especially the gunboats and the artillery.
The Southern economy, especially after 1862, didn’t allow most folks much in the way of luxuries like photographs and such. Happily there are pictures of most of the top Generals. The Gettysburg book shop used to have postcards with Generals from both sides. I don’t know if they still do. Heck, as a kid I had W S Hancock and Old Pete on the wall above my bed.😀 Reon
Great pics . Makes you realize in the mechanics of time ,this just happened . I have pics of my Great Grandfather in uniform . He did not have the $300 to buy his way out of that stupid war .
Note: there is only one picture of a Confederate soldier
Is that because the confederates didn't like colored people?
Bb
I think it's because the winners get to write history.
This is true!
Actually, post Civl War in the United States is pretty unique in that you would see both sides work toward commending the enemy as best that they could after such a long and hard war. It is one of the reasons you'll find enemy monuments inside enemy territory throughout the country. You'll even find streets named after enemy officers inside enemy territory. It was something both sides worked toward so we could reunite and move forward.
The idea that the south was evil and deserving of no recognition is part of revisionist history and not the fault of the victors of our Civil War.
Pretty neat pictures. Really makes it look different in color. But I caught one error near the end. I doubt the surrender at the Appomattox courthouse was on April 9'th, 1965.
Actually in this case the loosers wrote the history.
And this Country would have been a much better place if the losers had won.
Much, much better.
Absolutely!!
Some people still haven’t gotten over the war. Nothing would have been any better had the south won, can you imagine carpetbaggers heading north to plunder?
The pictures sort of personalize the men who fought. Many were just kids. It was a hard fought conflict for both sides.
I had a 16 year old family member who fought and died. He's buried in a mass grave somewhere, nobody knows where. His name is carved on the side of a headstone for another family vet who did come home. One was Union, one was Confederate, I don't know which was which.
The pictures sort of personalize the men who fought. Many were just kids. It was a hard fought conflict for both sides.
I had a 16 year old family member who fought and died. He's buried in a mass grave somewhere, nobody knows where. His name is carved on the side of a headstone for another family vet who did come home. One was Union, one was Confederate, I don't know which was which.
Actually in this case the loosers wrote the history.
And this Country would have been a much better place if the losers had won.
Much, much better.
Absolutely!!
Some people still haven’t gotten over the war. Nothing would have been any better had the south won, can you imagine carpetbaggers heading north to plunder?
The south would be better off anyway. The north well being a foreign country I wouldn’t worry about it much. Kinda like Ukraine and Israel.
Almost all the pictures are of traitors and their President.
I’ll be among the first to say that Lincoln forced an unjust war on the Southern states. But to classify those brave fellows who fought for a national union as traitors is going way too damn far for me. I consider the remark to be idiotic. Reon
Lincoln's Address "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln's Address "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City.
H.L. Mencken who hated the South and all things Southern, yet he was not an idiot and called the Gettysburg Address “…poetry, not logic…”. He stated thusly:
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“The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
H.L. Mencken who hated the South and all things Southern, yet he was not an idiot and called the Gettysburg Address “…poetry, not logic…”. He stated thusly:
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“The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
H.L. Mencken who hated the South and all things Southern, yet he was not an idiot and called the Gettysburg Address “…poetry, not logic…”. He stated thusly:
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“The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”