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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:51 PM Original message |
Were we too soft with the leaders of the Confederacy after the ... |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. Lincoln died a week after the war was over.... |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Insert 'We" for Lincoln. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:04 PM Original message |
Lincoln didn't just "die".. |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. Yup. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Actually less than a week. Lee surrendered April 9, 1865. Lincoln assassinated April 14, 1865. |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. What does that matter, now? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. History is more than just memorizing or recording events. |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. This is just more of the "don't kill the terrorists" threads. |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Because I'd like to know others opinions...thats why. |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. Seeing how there was not much left of the South at the end I'd say no. |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Is there no penalty for Treason? |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Sure. The South paid with the blood of their youth and the ruination of their lands. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Actually the North and the South paid. There are no "winners" in any war, let alone a civil war. |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Really? The North suffered too? I didn't know that. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. I'd call 635,000 dead and wounded suffering, yes. (nt) |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. The youth paid dearly with their lives, but what about their leaders who died of old age? |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 08:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. What did they expect when they seceded from the Union? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm going to build a time machine so I can give Lincoln access to nuclear weapons. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. The Union needed the Confederacy to formally surrender. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 08:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. dupe |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Exactly. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hard to say now. The South was occupied by Federal Troops until the Compromise of 1877, in which |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. What is the justice for the 500k young men who died? |
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barbiegeek (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. Yes, we were |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
17. Yeah, Grant and Lee should have gone to Versailles |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. "We"? nt |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. I'll always remember the end of Ken Burns' documentary |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
26. Kind of what we do. We were pretty soft on the leaders of the US who were the cause of millions |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
27. We should have let them secede. |
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jdp349 (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
28. No, the goal was to bring the South back into the Union |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-08-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. It was not only that they were allowed to go back |
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