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Counterfactual musings are only good for explaining why things happened the way they did; not the way they could have happened. At least that's how I look at it.
A parked tank with its cannon pointed away is not too scary. But that can change in about two seconds.
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I'm sure Sherman languished over the fate of those at Andersonville. But knowing the type of man he was, he probably figured that it would be hypocritical of him to inflict suffering on the Southern people while saving others from suffering too (when all were Americans in his eyes). But I'm speculating here, and I'm not defending Sherman in the least bit. I said he wasn't a gentleman in the traditional sense.
Remains in Israel have been found that date to 400,000 years ago. What is interesting is that according to researchers, this challenges the conventional theory that Africa was the original home of homo sapiens.World's Oldest Human Remains?
Gee who would have seen this coming? LOL at the archaeology field for this slap in their faces.
I believe History students should be made to focus in more on methodology rather than topic related courses. Yes one needs to be very familiar with whatever historical subject one majors in, but if one is out to teach at the highest level, one needs to understand the discipline itself in much greater detail. Seminars on historiography, historical method, and research application should be stressed much more than they currently are.
Von Danniken would have us to believe that ancient astronauts gave them their technology. But I think they were a resourceful people who appreciated mathematics and science, and were certainly capable of employing simple machines to make their daily tasks easier just like any other culture has done.
He understood what war was all about. He wasn't a prisoner of his own hubris like his predecessors were. He knew he wasn't a brilliant tactical genius, but he understood that to win, the enemy's will had to be broken. He understood war was a dirty business and not fit for gentlemen to fight. Sherman was no gentleman in the traditional sense of the word. He was a warrior who wasn't afraid of using the resources he had at his disposal. At the end of the day, whether you like Sherman or hate him, you have to give him the credit he is due for taking the fight to the Southern people and making the war so unbearable that they had to quit. That was what Lincoln wanted, and that was what Sherman did.
Well the South was guilty of hypocrisy. Southerners played an integral part in drafting the Constitution and forming the Republic. When things began to go against them politically, they cried foul. So yes, they only cared about state's rights so long as it applied to their states in particular.
Well, if you had a car that was stolen and brought to another state which did not allow you to recover it there, wouldn't you think that the other state's claim of a right meant little since the rights granted to you in your state came first? (Granted, when slaves got away from their masters in the South there was no injustice committed, but slaveholders would still have perceived that an injustice was committed).
But the North enforced the slave codes for the most part. Southerners seceded because they saw the writing was on the wall for slavery, and pretty much anything else on their agenda because free states were beginning to outnumber slave states. The South couldn't do anything about control of the House of Representatives, but so long as they could equal free state representation in the Senate, they could stop anything that would threaten slavery. Once the balance tipped against them, and the slave states became hemmed in, their only option was to hold onto the presidency, and when Lincoln won, they panicked. Having said all this, if the South had not fired on Fort Sumter, a political solution may have presented itself, or Europe might have sided with the South (to weaken American competition for no other reason). So basically, the South seceded out of fear, and committed state suicide (to borrow from my professor Dr. Mackey). For once they fired the first shot becoming the belligerent party, their goose was cooked.
