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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.

This is well said. I have no problem with Confederate History being displayed. When I was younger and stationed at Kessler AFB for electronics training, I visited the "Confederate whitehouse". I remember walking out into the back yard where several soldiers had ben buried and was jolted to see all the confederate flags posted over the bodies.

History should be like that, a reminder of what has happened in our past, be it glorious or dubious. And I completely agree, England and France would have invaded and gobble dup as much as they could, changing world history back to Socialist slavery (without there U.S. I doubt WW2 would have ended in an allied victory and Hitler and Stalin might still be alive today, lording it over us.

This is well said. I have no problem with Confederate History being displayed. When I was younger and stationed at Kessler AFB for electronics training, I visited the "Confederate whitehouse". I remember walking out into the back yard where several soldiers had ben buried and was jolted to see all the confederate flags posted over the bodies.

History should be like that, a reminder of what has happened in our past, be it glorious or dubious. And I completely agree, England and France would have invaded and gobble dup as much as they could, changing world history back to Socialist slavery (without there U.S. I doubt WW2 would have ended in an allied victory and Hitler and Stalin might still be alive today, lording it over us.

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.

Did ya make it to the sunkin rd?