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I agree with what Donnie said about Ike. He did,however, have a crisis when Francis Gary Powers was shot down on the U-2 spy mission.I am tempted to become a troll and say that Carter was my favorite but I can't tell that big of a lie.I think I will pick Washington as the best president even tho Teddy Roosevelt is one of my heros.
I had a pharmacology professor many years ago who speculated that the Black Death could have been Ergot poisoning from the mold on wheat. Ebola or Bubonic Plague seems more likely though.
Like most wars the cause was probably economics. The industrailized North was charging the agricultural South more for the needed equipment than they could buy the same equipment overseas. There were many more factors involved though. Lifestyles were very different in the two sections.Also most of the Southern states believed that the individual states should govern themselves with just a loose union binding them together as a country. The war changed that to the powerful central government we have today.Slavery was a factor surely but not the primary cause of the war. Lincoln made a statement that if he could save the Union and free no slaves he would do so. If he could free the slaves and not save the Union he would not do so.
I think rldowns pretty much nailed it.On another view, if secession was not legal how did the Union allow West Virginia to secede from Virginia ?
I don’t know C.B. Pritchard personally but he owns the Pritchard Ford Dealership in Albany, Ga
Apparently The POW camp at Elmira NY was almost as bad as Camp DouglasHere is a link about Camp Douglas. This was researched by C.B. Pritchett of Albany Ga
https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/geocitiesAt Camp Sumpter (Andersonville)the conditions were very bad but mostly due to lack of supplies rather than cruelty. Some problems were caused by gangs of prisoners preying on other prisoners. Capt Wirtz allowed the prisoners to try these gangsters and they were hung. I live about 50 miles from Andersonville and have visited several times. The “Raiders” are buried outside the main cemetery. If I remember correctly there are six of them.
The guards did not have much better rations than the prisoners due to lack of supplies. Another one of my
G-grandfathers was a 16 year old guard there(He was on detached service sick when the rest of the 55th was captured at Cumberland Gap).
Gen Grant and the Union officials refused to exchange prisoners because they knew that the Confederacy was short of supplies and that maintaining thousands of POWs would be a tremendous burden. They contributed to the death and suffering then tried and hung Capt Wirtz as a scapegoat.It was a dying institution by the mid-1800 s. Slaves were expensive and required maintainence year round and beyond their working lives. Technology would have eventually phased out the practice. How long that would have taken is anyone’s guess.
H.H. BuggfuzzPhidippides
I guess the victors write the historys.
Elmira NY POW camp rivaled Camp Douglas for cruelty and death rates. The Johnson Island Camp in Lake Erie was much better until the last year of the war when rations were drasticly cut.
Camp Douglas has the largest mass grave in the US.
The entire 55th Ga Regiment was captured along with a NC regiment at Cumberland Gap Tenn,. They were surrendered without firing a shot by Gen. Fraser( N.Carolina) over the objections of his junior officers to a much smaller Union force under Burnside. They lost more men in Camp Douglas than they would have lost in battle.
H.H. BuggfuzzDonnie
I think you nailed the primadonnas pretty well.
When Hooker took over he said his headquarters would be in the saddle. Some wit said that his headquarters were where his hindquarters ought to be.
A professor once said that P.T.G. Beauregard's name was taller than he was.Sherman did indeed start the concept of warfare on civilians, I didn’t pick him because of the generous surrender terms he offered at the end of the war. Also he and Grant went to bat for Gen, Lee when the congress wanted to try R.E. Lee for treason after Lincoln’s death.
Most Georgians tho hate the name "Sherman"I am quite sure that if France or England had come in on the side of the South that the other country would have supported the North. When the Union ship took the two Confederate ambassadors off the British ship they came close to bringing England into the conflict. I am just glad I didn’t live in those times.
H.H. BuggfuzzRalph McGill who wrote for the Atlanta Journal during that time period advocated supporting Hitler for a while and Stalin for a while until they wore themselves out.
Has anyone read Day of Deceit by Robert B. Stinnett ?? It lays the blame on FDR for Pearl Harbor. I have mixed feelings about it but if the copies of documents are accurate FDR must have had some prior knowlege of the impending attack if not the scope of it. According to the book Adm Husband Kimmell and Gen. Walter Short were kept out of the intelligence loop in the period prior to the attack but were made scapegoats after the attack. Good read whether you believe all of it or not
Herman H, BuggfuzzThe South was badly overmatched in men and materials but a victory at Gettysburg might have brought England in on the side of the South. They needed the agricultural production of the Southern states, especially cotton. At the time of Gettysburg they were sitting on the fence. Who can say what the outcome would have been?
Herman Horsehair Buggfuzz
