Mr. Bettwy while your previous post was extremely helpful in educating us all about the Civil War, I could not help but notice your own personal opinions coming forth. Yes the articles you listed were quite insightful, but they in no way would lead a person to conclude such preposterous ideas as that Stonewall Jackson were a lesser general than his authority General Lee. You see Mr. Bettwy we would like to keep the integrity of this blog sound and comments such as yours will only lead poor uneducated souls into believing ideas founded on lies and biased thinking. In order to give our other bloggers a fair assessment of the debate between General Lee and General Stonewall Jackson I have provided some additional information. If you check out the posted link you will see a list of the ways the South could have won the war. The first item listed is the survival of Stonewall Jackson! In fact there is a common belief that Lee's mistakes at Gettysburg would not have happened if Jackson were alive. The facts are simple God must have had to take out Stonewall Jackson because slavery sucks and Jackson inadvertently would have extended it because of his military brilliance. Lee however wasn't dangerous enough to be taken out.
http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/society/south_won.htm
ReplyDeletehahaha... all I know is our forefathers should have abolished slavery somewhere around the beginning of the war and continued to fight for all the other state rights. We might not have such a monster federal debt machine now as a result of it. (pure speculation.)
ReplyDeleteI wish you were here right now, Colt, because I'd give you a wedgie.
ReplyDeleteAs for "opinions based on lies and biased thinking," I will provide the following from OSU's e-history, which represents one of many such ideas from brothers and sisters caught up in this great battle for General Lee's name.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/ListPreviewOnly.cfm?LID=31&PreviewOnly=yes&public=yes
I would provide more lists and quotes from people, but I will simply rest my case on this: The team of General Robert E. Lee/ JEB Stuart would make Stonewall Jackson/ James Longstreet do naked laps in Cornhole.