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I like Walter Williams but he got that wrong. It is never as cut and dried as it is stated by the "lost cause" crowd that we-wrote history. At the time our nation was divided among slave states and non-slave states. The great issue at that time was the "New Territories". There were great debates over them being admitted. The slave states demanded they be allowed to b admitted as slave states. They wanted to grow slavery. Another argument keeping them from staying in the union was the non slave states and escaped slaves. The south wanted the northern non slave states to honor their property rights. They also wanted to use the slave's census as a battering ram to gain power in congress. It's a sort of twisted scenario of what we're going through today with illegal migrants being admitted to the voting rolls. Slaves had not rights to vote. They actually had no rights at all.
This has been beat to death and though Lincoln and the Republican party did go around the original intent of states rights in a way they were forced to by the circumstances. Be careful what you wish for because if the states had managed to get their way there would be no America as we know it today. England and France were praying for the south to win because it would've split the states and allowed them to come in and take property. The southern slave states could've kept their slaves and remained but it was ruled that no new territories would be admitted as slave states.

Jeb had a long trip he was weary give the man credit😂

When you stop by the Devils Den I believe the Sharpshooter’s hide is currently fenced off (it was last summer) for restoration. The same signage and famous photograph is still there explaining it was faked.

James C Grove argues convincingly it was not.

http://www.jamescgroves.com/henry/hcp1a.htm

See if you can make out the impact fracture on the front of one of the boulders from that New York artillery Parrot rifle on Little Round Top shooting back.

My cheap rangefinder said it was 550 yards from the hide to one of the big monuments on LRT, the guy was hitting Union artillery guys from that range.

Also something to look for, the pile of boulders maybe 60 yards flanking LRT on the left of the Union line. Hidden by woods today, more open field of fire at the time. About 15 Sharpshooters there with their 1858 Sharps rifles were pouring as many as nine rounds per minute each into Oate’s already exhausted Alabama troop’s right flank as they went up against Chamberlain’s 20th Maine.

Besides the fact that they were attacking with empty canteens after a 25 mile forced march in the heat, that galling fire on their flank by skilled marksmen must have had an effect generally overlooked in most accounts.

Welcome to Pa, Kirk.


If you travel west on US 30 or the Turnpike let me know. I’ll buy you a coffee and shake your hand.


I know you and Reon are getting together, holler if he drags you this way.

Longstreet’s flank march took so long to get into position because the staff officer who reconnoitered the route got lost, but didn’t know it. He was supposed to lead the column along a route that was terrain masked from Federal view, but the route he said would work wouldn’t.

A lot of the vitriol directed at Longstreet comes from the fact that he became a Republican after the war.

I have an annual tradition of re-reading Guelzo’s “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion” every June. It’s so beautifully written and pro-American. An unusual thing in today’s world.

It also does a good job sorting out some of the heroes and goats.

As a veteran, whenever I read about the Civil War, all I can think is that these battles would have been totally different if each army had three PRC-19’s or even a couple of sets of black gear.

I don’t know where that is…

It's on my bucket list along with a tour of Europe for the ww2 sites.

As for the confederate monuments, they should stay. It's history, whether dark or not, it's our history. I would say we could learn from it but folks nowadays are too stupid

Bedford County
Maybe 70 miles west on 30.



Walkie Talkies, heck yeah.


I’ve contemplated the $$$ value for smart phones in WWII.
Google maps alone would have been priceless.
Even just a calculator app.

Real time communication with GPS?
Game changer, bigger than the bomb.

That device would have won the war for whoever had it.


It’s not sexy, but info wins wars. More than anything.