in the US civil war

[Deadstick]

I would have, and still do, support the South in that War.



That is true. It was a war between the union of states in the North, and the confederacy of states in the South.

Quantrill

It was a civil War, both sides were American.

 

[BothWings]

In truth I'd probably have sympathies toward both sides for different reasons, and be at odds with both for different reasons. Most likely I'd head out West and look for gold...or start a highway hotel empire out West like the Trump family did, far away from the bloody fray.

 

[Quantrill]

It was a civil War, both sides were American.

Americans as identified by the State they lived in. Southern Americans could raise hell about the North all it wanted. But until their State seceded they were not part of that War. It was a War Between The States.

Quantrill

 

[Zebra]

why are there no votes for the South?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

The Smithsonian American Museum of Art in DC, has a wonderful section on the Civil War, of paintings depicting that period of US history.

 

[there4eyeM]

It was the Union that was being preserved. The entire situation is obfuscated by focusing on "north" and "south". Yes, the states attempting to destroy the Union were all south of the Mason-Dixon line, but it was not the entirety of Southern people who sought that destruction, just as not everyone on the other side of the line was entirely sympathetic to the Constitution and the Union.

 

[Zebra]

still no votes for the South

 

[Quantrill]

It was the Union that was being preserved. The entire situation is obfuscated by focusing on "north" and "south". Yes, the states attempting to destroy the Union were all south of the Mason-Dixon line, but it was not the entirety of Southern people who sought that destruction, just as not everyone on the other side of the line was entirely sympathetic to the Constitution and the Union.

The U.S. Union still existed after the Southern states seceded. The South didn't attempt to destroy that. They just left it. Which the Northern States wouldn't allow and so made war on the South.

Quantrill

 

[Quantrill]

why are there no votes for the South?

I don't do polls. You know what I believe by reading my posts.

Quantrill

 

[Bleipriester]

I would have, and still do, support the South in that War.



That is true. It was a war between the union of states in the North, and the confederacy of states in the South.

Quantrill

Interesting. What is so great about the Confederacy?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

would you support the North or the South..?

i would support the North

One ?
or the one that's coming?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

It was a hard life in those days long hours in a noisy and not so healthy environment, my Grandad was a cloth looker he made the final quality inspection quality control using a small magnifying glass, after the first world war it was the job he did all his life.
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cloth lookers glass
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Its called a pick glass they're still used today

I still have a couple of them I haven't used one in well over a decade

Its Used for counting and inspecting up close
They're still made like that fold up put them in your pocket


There's larger ones that look like little microscopes a desktop version if you will

Here's a modern one

 

[Deadstick]

Its called a pick glass they're still used today

I still have a couple of them I haven't used one in well over a decade

Its Used for counting and inspecting up close
They're still made like that fold up put them in your pocket


There's larger ones that look like little microscopes a desktop version if you will

Here's a modern one
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Thankyou for that, when i was a small child and visited my Grandparents Home which was almost every day because they lived on the same street i used to play with Grandads old folding microscope, it was made from Brass.

 

[Zebra]

I would have, and still do, support the South in that War.



That is true. It was a war between the union of states in the North, and the confederacy of states in the South.

Quantrill

then you could vote for it

 

[Tommy Tainant]

then you could vote for it

I think there must be a sense of shame in supporting the slavers. There should be they were horrible people.

 

[Deadstick]

I think there must be a sense of shame in supporting the slavers. There should be they were horrible people.

Yes then after the Civil war many of them just carried on with their vile ways and formed the terrorist group known as the KKK, they were still lynching blacks into the 1960s, civilizing them is an ongoing project.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Yes then after the Civil war many of them just carried on with their vile ways and formed the terrorist group known as the KKK, they were still lynching blacks into the 1960s, civilizing them is an ongoing project.

Its a sivk place with sick people. Its a shame for the decent folk stuck there.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I think there must be a sense of shame in supporting the slavers. There should be they were horrible people.

Britain was complicit in that. To fuel its cotton mills in Manchester.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Not to forget:

 

[Deadstick]

Its a sivk place with sick people. Its a shame for the decent folk stuck there.

My Mums younger Sister married a former US airman and moved with him to America, she lived the rest of her life in Alabama not far from Montgomery she saw these people close up, in the fifties she saw huge KKK marches through her Town it would have been a real culture shock.