Compared to European and American war crimes in these both World Wars the Confederates look like Saints.
There is perhaps no better illustration of Lee’s dedication to just warfare than General Orders No. 73, which he issued to the Army of Northern Virginia during the Gettysburg campaign in 1863. The orders state, in part: “the duties expected of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.”
Lee went on to remind his troops that they should confine their war-making to “armed men,” rather than “the unarmed and defenceless.”
Doing harm to the civilian population or disturbing private property would be considered “barbarous” by the commanding general, and such actions could not be carried out before the eyes of an all-seeing God without “offending against Him to whom vengeance belongeth.”
There is perhaps no better illustration of Lee’s dedication to just warfare than General Orders No. 73, which he issued to the Army of Northern Virginia during the Gettysburg campaign in 1863. The orders state, in part: “the duties expected of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.”
Lee went on to remind his troops that they should confine their war-making to “armed men,” rather than “the unarmed and defenceless.”
Doing harm to the civilian population or disturbing private property would be considered “barbarous” by the commanding general, and such actions could not be carried out before the eyes of an all-seeing God without “offending against Him to whom vengeance belongeth.”
Lee ordered that all requisitioned supplies would be paid for. He also ordered that any soldier who “insulted a woman by word, look, or act, would be instantly shot.” He explained his orders to General Isaac Trimble, saying: “I cannot hope that Heaven will prosper our cause when we are violating its laws. I shall, therefore, carry on the war in Pennsylvania without offending the sanctions of a high civilization and of Christianity.”
Can you compare any European or American General of the last 150 years to this?
Can you compare any European or American General of the last 150 years to this?
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Yankee Ellis islanders will say southeners are mixed with blacks or natives when 99% of us are Anglo/Scottish with some slight French or German. And they’re all 8% of everything lmao.
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“Don’t go confessing the sins of your ancestors, or missionaries of the past, they were very often better people than we are. And we need to be up and doing, so that we can accomplish as much as they did in their day. They were not perfect, none of us are this side of Heaven. But they did the Lord’s work as best they could and we should thank God for them.”
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One of the greatest scenes and line of dialogue from Tolkien, based on the Anglo Saxon poem “The Wanderer”
The onetime Nazi functionary Hermann Rauschning writes that Hitler felt the Confederacy had been the real America.
“Since the Civil War, in which the Southern States were conquered, against all historical logic and sound sense, the Americans have been in a condition of political and popular decay,” he recalled Hitler telling him.
“Since the Civil War, in which the Southern States were conquered, against all historical logic and sound sense, the Americans have been in a condition of political and popular decay,” he recalled Hitler telling him.
Rauschning’s memory of the Führer’s words squares with Hitler’s enthusiasm for “Gone with the Wind”: “In that war, it was not the Southern States, but the American people themselves who were conquered.”