Now, as everyone over the age of 30 knows, the American war between the States, or more commonly referred to in the South as the War of Northern Aggression, was started by the North and perpetrated on the South for no good reason.

Well, that's what the evidence shows but there is another little known fact about the Civil, er, War of Northern Aggression that the historians have conveniently overlooked.

The real reason the yankee scoundrels invaded the South, burned it to the ground, raped, plundered and pillanged the country side is that the South had 4 things the North did not have and still does not have.....
Real cowboys, Southern Belles, Texas BBQ and faster horses.

What's amazing is the numbers of actions taken by the Northern Army that are now know as war crimes.

About Cavalry during the War.
At the start of the War most Southerners just brought the horse they normally owned and rode to the unit where they served. The Southern Calvary was considered the finest in the world in 1861. The South had no means of replacing horses lost to combat or other means. Those horses captured were to few in number to make up for losses. By 1863, or there abouts, many Southern Mounted Units had been reassigned as light infantry. The North was able to replace those horses they lost and by the end of the War had supremacy to those Southern Units still mounted.

[ May 09, 2007, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: Mike Franklin ]

It's sad but the victor gets to write history .
That said a few good books on this subject IMO are;

"The South was Right!" by James and Walter Kennedy
,
"The REAL Lincoln" By Thomas J. DiLorenzo
and

"When in the Course of HUMAN EVENTS
Arguing the Case of Southern Secession"
By Charles Adams

All good reads for folks with open minds and a passion for history.

BTW even some of us northerners (I'm a NH yankee )
think that the war was a travesty at best and a crime at worst.

And if the South was so superior, why did they lose this little skirmish? And if the South should have won as you all want us to believe, would you all still be owning a few slaves tethered out in your back yards today? Just when would of you folks given up on that little experiment in human rights?

Please, let's move on, that was so 20 minutes ago.

Thousands of barefoot boys wearing homemade uniforms didn't fight for slavery. Slavery was already turning into a money loosing indusrty. Within a few years slavery would have died out and there would not have been a war at all.
I wonder how different things might be today if Blacks had slowly been moved into a free society, educated and given their rights?

Oh, I don't know, Mike. I think we'd still have guys like Al "not-so" Sharpton running around because there's money to be made in the victimization industry.

But our esteemed fellow member NW misses the point when he says we Southerners believe we should have won the war because we were "superior". Our righteous indignation extends from the fact that we believe the war was caused by you all trying to force your "superior" way of life on us back then, just the way the Federal government and social engineers like Hillary Clinton and the Media, are doing today.

It just don't end.

Yes, and as my great grandmother Anna Selzer said until the day she died, "I'm not an American, I'm a Texan." She was born in TX during the time they were trying for their own independence.

So, if George W the most qualified thing to come out of TX, then I am not too impressed.

Somehow I missed the connection between your Great Grandmother and Dubya. But let me say here and now I make no appologies for the way GW has caved to the Media and deserted his base. He is a big disappointment.

Not that he hasn't done some good, but he has shown that he is too much a politician, too little a leader and not much of a Texan.

Hey go2tex2, i got a good laugh out of the four things the north wanted from the south.=) My other hobby aside from horses is reading all about the civil war as possible. Real cowboys for sure

I thought GW's independent attitude is what got him into trouble...standing up for what he believes is right. I think America's entire existence is based on people standing up for what they believe in, and America will fall because good folks do nothing!
In my opinion, thats what the Civil War was all about too, folks standing up on both sides of the issues for what they believed was right. The states and territories believed they had the right to choose slavery or not, and the Feds disagreed.

I think its time for a quick history lesson folks, even though our schools have spent the last 40 years teaching revisonist history the fact is that the war was not fought over slavery it was fought over States Rights. Even President Lincoln said when he signed the Enmanceapation Act that he fear what would come of its signing. Slavery was a side issue of the war to which the politicly correct crowd has turned into the only reason for the war. Greg

All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing..........

Say what you will about Dubya, but he is a good man that is standing for what he knows is right.....the "cowboy code" in action.......

No, GW's attitude is not what got him into trouble. It's when he started back peddling and going soft, appeasing the Leftist Media, that his numbers went south.

We wanted and needed a leader and all we got was Karen Hughes and Karl Rove pulling his strings like a friggin puppet, trying to keep the Republican party in power. Well, they failed miserably, didn't they?

Those two geniuses might know how to win an election, but they sure don't know road apples about winning a war!

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Originally posted by gumby:
I think its time for a quick history lesson folks, ......... Greg

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I agree and can only add, I think it's time to take back our schools! Until we do, this country will continue to go downhill in a hurry.