The largest military conflict in North American history begins this day when Union and Confederate forces collide at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The epic battle lasted three days and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
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Two months prior to Gettysburg, Lee had dealt a stunning defeat to the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia. He then made plans for a Northern invasion in order to relieve pressure on war-weary Virginia and to seize the initiative from the Yankees. His army, numbering about 80,000, began moving on June 3. The Army of the Potomac, commanded by Joseph Hooker and numbering just under 100,000, began moving shortly thereafter, staying between Lee and Washington, D.C. But on June 28, frustrated by the Lincoln administration’s restrictions on his autonomy as commander, Hooker resigned and was replaced by George G. Meade.
Meade took command of the Army of the Potomac as Lee’s army moved into Pennsylvania. On the morning of July 1, advance units of the forces came into contact with one another just outside of Gettysburg. The sound of battle attracted other units, and by noon the conflict was raging. During the first hours of battle, Union General John Reynolds was killed, and the Yankees found that they were outnumbered. The battle lines ran around the northwestern rim of Gettysburg. The Confederates applied pressure all along the Union front, and they slowly drove the Yankees through the town.
By evening, the Federal troops rallied on high ground on the southeastern edge of Gettysburg. As more troops arrived, Meade’s army formed a three-mile long, fishhook-shaped line running from Culp’s Hill on the right flank, along Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge, to the base of Little Round Top. The Confederates held Gettysburg, and stretched along a six-mile arc around the Union position. Lee’s forces would continue to batter each end of the Union position, before launching the infamous Pickett’s Charge against the Union center on July 3.
It’s no secret the wrong side won that war. All the South wanted was what most Americans want today — to be free from Washington D.C. and to try their luck with a new government. Funny how the country was founded on armed rebellion from Great Britain, yet the Union was somehow so sacred it was worth torching half the country to keep it subjected. The so-called scholars will twist and turn their mental gymnastics explaining why it was so different. But by the same logic continental Europe should be ready to nuke England and murder a couple million people over the Brexit vote.
History is written by the victors. History says the Civil War started when “the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter.” Technically true. But the southern states started seceding in December 1860. Fort Sumter didn’t happen until April 1861. What happened in the meantime? Well, the Confederacy sent a lot of ambassadors to D.C. to figure out how to broker a peaceful solution. When Lincoln finally got in the first thing he did was call for a 75,000 man invasion force. He also did everything he could to provoke the Confederates into firing which included ordering the few coastal forts in the South to be held and resupplied by sea. Major Robert Anderson even moved his garrison from the mainland to the middle of Charleston harbor under cover of nightfall, even though Fort Sumter was indefensible in order to send a giant F.U. to the southern troops assembled.
The truth was Lincoln was a P.O.S. homosexual warmonger, and most people knew so whether they liked him or not, until around the 1920s when they started putting his ugly mug on literally everything, naming holidays after him, and brainwashing kindergartners into regurgitating that he was “the greatest president ever.” And thus today.
The Civil War was won not won due to a superior cause, but due to a superior warmongers. Many generals, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, etc. failed at the task at hand. Some were idiots but it was mostly because they weren’t willing to embrace the total savagery needed to subjugate half of the nation to an unwilling fate. It wasn’t until Grant realized he could throw unlimited amounts of Irish into the Federal meatgrinder and Sherman and Sheridan realized they could raze the south with no repercussions that the North prevailed. The rest is so-called history. Happy July Fourth.
That was great. It is heartening to know that over my almost 7 decades the truth about the “Civil War” has been clawed back bit by bit. Not only is that a good thing in itself but it leaves in it’s wake a healthy distrust of the lies we’re being fed today. With the stain of slavery long past we’re all Confederates now.
Great summary of the uncivil war Tumbleweed. And as fate would have it, ongoing reparation payments for the poor oppressed will be the undoing of the Union that destroyed a once proud Southern Nation. Karma is indeed a vengeful bitch.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-cost-of-black-america.html
The cost of Black America
If you are a white American, over the course of your lifetime the federal government will, on average and on your behalf, transfer $384,109 of your wealth and income to a single black individual.
According to the data derived from the 2014 federal budget, the average annual net tax/benefit broke down as follows:
White: -$2,795
Black: +$10,016
Over the course of an average 79-year lifespan, a white individual contributes a net $220,805 to the system, whereas over the course of an average 75-year lifespan, a black individual receives a net $751,200. However, since there are 4.6 times more whites than blacks in the USA, the black share has to be divided among the various contributors to sort out a one-to-one comparison.
So, the net cost to the average White American of the average Black American is $384,109. Married? That’s $768,218. Got 2 kids? That’s $1,536,436. 4 kids? Now we’re talking $2,304,654 lifetime.
Diversity is expensive. Now you understand why you won’t have much of an inheritance to leave to your children. Do you really think it’s worth it? And then, those natural conservatives to the south, the Hispanics, will surely improve the situation, right? After all, immigration helps the economy! Well, not so much.
Hispanic: +7,298
In fact, because there are more Hispanics in the USA than Blacks, Hispanics are already a bigger cumulative net drain on the economy, $411,950,000,000 to $389,710,000,000. Needless to say, the ongoing demographic change from a predominantly white society to a less productive, less white one can be expected to have even more serious negative effects on the long-term economic prospects of the United States that it already has.
To quote the original author: “The negative fiscal impact of blacks and hispanics is significant. All of this discussion of a “national debt” and “deficit” is primarily of function of blacks and hispanics. Without them, we would be running budget surpluses today, even when keeping the military the same size.”
Wherein Vox Day devles into the mechanics of sustaining a socialistic America.
https://www.pscp.tv/voxday/1PlKQApdvyNKE?t=37s
So long Republic , nice to have known ye.
The Republic has been gone for a long time. It was replaced with a democracy. The United States democracy.
I tell a lot of people about this. Few understand it. Most won’t even read it.
Read how it came about at;
noconstitutionforyou.blogspot.com
I’m not a Lincoln fan but this is the first I’ve heard about him being homosexual.
Were you just ranting or is there a source for this?
Great write-up. Couldn’t agree more, tumbleweed.
The irony is you can’t even pay anybody to take them today and they are flooding Europe and South Florida like rats.