Civil War Hero Awarded the Medal of Honor at Last

[guno]

WASHINGTON — After more than 151 years, First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing finally got his day at the White House, even if he could not enjoy it personally.

President Obama formally presented the Medal of Honor on Thursday to the family of Lieutenant Cushing, a Union soldier who died at the Battle of Gettysburg after standing up to a fusillade of Confederate fire.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/us/politics/alonzo-cushing-medal-of-honor-civil-war.html?_r=0

 

[rightwinger]

Long overdue

Cushing helped repel Pickets Charge

 

[guno]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

 

[bodecea]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

 

[WinterBorn]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

The southern rabble-rousers won't be so successful in instigating it or starting a serious movement of secession, if they try.

 

[rightwinger]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

Spoken like a true gun nut

In the 1860s having a rifle and a few cannons were great equalizers on the battlefield. Even at that, the Souths lack of a Navy cost them the war

Modern warfare requires tanks, helicopters, aircraft and a navy to win. None of which are available to a secessionist south

 

[Old Rocks]

While people like Steve McG and Big Rabble flap yap and make a lot of noise, the patriots in this nation remain quiet, earnest, and just as determined now as then. The result would be far quicker and deadly for those that would destroy this nation today.

 

[Dot Com]

WASHINGTON — After more than 151 years, First Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing finally got his day at the White House, even if he could not enjoy it personally.

President Obama formally presented the Medal of Honor on Thursday to the family of Lieutenant Cushing, a Union soldier who died at the Battle of Gettysburg after standing up to a fusillade of Confederate fire.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/us/politics/alonzo-cushing-medal-of-honor-civil-war.html?_r=0

Thank you President Obama CIC Heres a painting of some Secessioners getting their clocks cleaned by African American Union troops

 

[reconmark]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

 

[Delta4Embassy]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

The southern rabble-rousers won't be so successful in instigating it or starting a serious movement of secession, if they try.

A second revolution is impossible without the miltary's support. A non-military backed uprising would be crushed almost instantly. Plus it's futile, the government's set up to survive a nuclear war with the Soviets, a bunch of drunk rednecks aren't a threat enough to call out the national guard. Handle it with police. BUT, if the milutary got involved in a meaningful way all bets are off. CoG plans assume the military isn't the aggressor. A military coup could conceivably work. Who do you call if your own military turns against you?

 

[Dot Com]

one of my fav paintings of the War of Southern Rebellion where Gen Sherman crushes the Secessioners :

 

[guno]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

The southern rabble-rousers won't be so successful in instigating it or starting a serious movement of secession, if they try.

A second revolution is impossible without the miltary's support. A non-military backed uprising would be crushed almost instantly. Plus it's futile, the government's set up to survive a nuclear war with the Soviets, a bunch of drunk rednecks aren't a threat enough to call out the national guard. Handle it with police. BUT, if the milutary got involved in a meaningful way all bets are off. CoG plans assume the military isn't the aggressor. A military coup could conceivably work. Who do you call if your own military turns against you?

The slack jawed trailer dwelling southern inbred crackers, will get their asses kicked once again

 

[Delta4Embassy]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

The southern rabble-rousers won't be so successful in instigating it or starting a serious movement of secession, if they try.

A second revolution is impossible without the miltary's support. A non-military backed uprising would be crushed almost instantly. Plus it's futile, the government's set up to survive a nuclear war with the Soviets, a bunch of drunk rednecks aren't a threat enough to call out the national guard. Handle it with police. BUT, if the milutary got involved in a meaningful way all bets are off. CoG plans assume the military isn't the aggressor. A military coup could conceivably work. Who do you call if your own military turns against you?

The slack jawed trailer dwelling southern inbred crackers, will get their asses kicked once again

Waco and Ruby Ridge are good examples of what happens when rednecks think the 2nd Amendment means they CAN take over or resist. Uh...No not really. Just means you can get yourself surrounded and killed in short order.

 

[guno]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

The southern rabble-rousers won't be so successful in instigating it or starting a serious movement of secession, if they try.

A second revolution is impossible without the miltary's support. A non-military backed uprising would be crushed almost instantly. Plus it's futile, the government's set up to survive a nuclear war with the Soviets, a bunch of drunk rednecks aren't a threat enough to call out the national guard. Handle it with police. BUT, if the milutary got involved in a meaningful way all bets are off. CoG plans assume the military isn't the aggressor. A military coup could conceivably work. Who do you call if your own military turns against you?

The slack jawed trailer dwelling southern inbred crackers, will get their asses kicked once again

Waco and Ruby Ridge are good examples of what happens when rednecks think the 2nd Amendment means they CAN take over or resist. Uh...No not really. Just means you can get yourself surrounded and killed in short order.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

Spoken like a true gun nut

In the 1860s having a rifle and a few cannons were great equalizers on the battlefield. Even at that, the Souths lack of a Navy cost them the war

Modern warfare requires tanks, helicopters, aircraft and a navy to win. None of which are available to a secessionist south

What about the largest military base in the free world? And thats just for starters.

 

[Newby]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

The southern rabble-rousers won't be so successful in instigating it or starting a serious movement of secession, if they try.

A second revolution is impossible without the miltary's support. A non-military backed uprising would be crushed almost instantly. Plus it's futile, the government's set up to survive a nuclear war with the Soviets, a bunch of drunk rednecks aren't a threat enough to call out the national guard. Handle it with police. BUT, if the milutary got involved in a meaningful way all bets are off. CoG plans assume the military isn't the aggressor. A military coup could conceivably work. Who do you call if your own military turns against you?

The slack jawed trailer dwelling southern inbred crackers, will get their asses kicked once again

A black racist, what a shocker! And you don't see one lib in here calling him out on his racism, another shocker!

 

[rightwinger]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

Spoken like a true gun nut

In the 1860s having a rifle and a few cannons were great equalizers on the battlefield. Even at that, the Souths lack of a Navy cost them the war

Modern warfare requires tanks, helicopters, aircraft and a navy to win. None of which are available to a secessionist south

What about the largest military base in the free world? And thats just for starters.

United States property

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

You people of the South don't know what you are doing.( no surprise even today) This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

• • Comments to Prof. David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary (24 December 1860); quoted in The Civil War: A Narrative(1986) by Shelby Foote, p. 58; also in The Civil War : A Book of Quotations (2004) by Robert Blaisdell

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The North wouldn't be so successful.........if it happens again!

Spoken like a true gun nut

In the 1860s having a rifle and a few cannons were great equalizers on the battlefield. Even at that, the Souths lack of a Navy cost them the war

Modern warfare requires tanks, helicopters, aircraft and a navy to win. None of which are available to a secessionist south

What about the largest military base in the free world? And thats just for starters.

United States property

Molon Labe.......

 

[Dot Com]

What about the largest military base in the free world? And thats just for starters.

United States property

yep, federal funding would be cut immediately then what would the secessioners do?