Re: What kind of person was Stonewall Jackson?

On Jun 28, 9:55 am, "Mike stone" <mwst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Ulysses at Olympus Mons" <davidholi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > As for the idea that CSA cause was "disgusting," I
> > recently attended an SCV camp meeting in Louisiana.  Definitely
> > not KKK stuff.  There is a salute to the battle flag (Stars & Bars)
> > which was the only flag in the room.  You pledge to protect the
> > flag per se and to honor the flag whenever possible.  This
> > translates into placing the flag (or the first CSA national flag which
> > is not offensive to certain groups) at the grave of every Confederate
> > veteran in the Parish on the birthday of Jefferson Davis. This task
> > was the "new business" of the meeting.  The guest speaker was a
> > local historian who talked about 30 minutes on the life of Holt
> > Collier, a Negro CSA  sniper  who became the greatest bear hunter
> > in American history after the war.  Even white hunter Teddy Roosevelt
> > was impressed by Collier's total bear kill which was 2000 plus.
>
> I've no problem with Confederate soldiers (or ftm Union ones), whose
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> and tenacity I admire.
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> I'm a lot less patient with Southern _politicians_, who mostly strike me
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> disasters waiting to happen. In particular, I think the clowns who
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> the bombardment of Ft Sumter were little short of lunatics.

Former congressman Petigru of South Carolina would have agreed with
you. When they fired on Sumber, he said:

"South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an
insane asylum."

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Will in New Haven
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