If I Had Been President of the Confederacy. . . .

[Zincwarrior]

April 14, 1865, the War was all but over. The South was militarily defeated. The North had their military victory. Sumter had fallen on April 14, 1861. Glory, glory...hallelujah

So, Lincoln and the North wanted to openly shit on the South and have a glorious flag raising at Sumter. And Lincoln wanted the hero of Sumter, Anderson, there to raise the flag. "President Lincoln wanted the American flag to again fly over the fort and wanted its former commander, Robert Anderson, to raise it." (The Demon Of Unrest, Erik Larson, Crown Publishing Group, p. 479)

And so Anderson did. And he gave his speech, "Anderson said, I restore to its proper place this flag which floated here during peace, before the first act of this cruel Rebellion." (Larson, p. 487) And of course much patriotic feeling and song.

Then later that night in Charleston, a special dinner was held at the Charleston Hotel. (Larson, p. 488) And of course toasts were made all around by the victors. "Doubleday honored the Sumter garrison; former secretary of war Joseph Holt toasted Anderson." (Larson, p. 488)

Then around "ten o'clock, Anderson himself got up and delivered what was probably the most heartfelt of the tributes. 'I beg you now...that you will join me in drinking the health of another man whom we all love to honor....I give you the good, the great, the honest man, Abraham Lincoln'." (Larson, p. 488)

But oh the irony, for Anderson did not know. "He could not know it, but at that instant, Lincoln lay dying of a gunshot wound in a box at Ford's Theatre in Washington." (Larson, p. 488)

Yep, Anderson gave us that good , great, honest Abe as they carried him out the theatre with a bullet in his brain.

Glory, glory, hallelujah....

Quantrill

Lightweight. Should have started rounding up all the natives and walking them towards Kansas, to be managed under the benevolent US Army. The survivors anyway.

 

[Quantrill]

Lightweight. Should have started rounding up all the natives and walking them towards Kansas, to be managed under the benevolent US Army. The survivors anyway.

'Mine eyes have seen the comin of the glory of their lord. As they carry him out of Ford's Theatre with a bullet in his brain.'

Glory, glory, hallelujah...glory, glory halleujah...justice just keeps marchin on.

Damn, those wheels of justice. Here is a toast, April 14, 2026, to the death of the tyrant Abraham Lincoln. History is a b***h aint it?

Quantrill