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Originally posted by fastpat
[B]Get used to it.
Get used to hearing Southern crackers lamenting their ass beating...fine by me, although listening to all of that whining can get downright tiresome
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Did South Carolina send those folks into that area, or was that a response to John Brown's murderous rampage in Virginia, a raid sponsored by well known Northern abolishionists (aka the secret six)?
So, 2 wrongs NOW make a right--and it would have been perfectly acceptable in your view after the burning of Atlanta that a Northern city be likewise burned.
No, once war was initiated by the Union, any method necessary to force the Union out of the south, including entry into Pennsylvania was legitimate. Discussion as to whether is was a good idea, in my opinion it was not, is another subject. What was a good idea was an immediate follow-up to the First Manassas victory with the taking of Washington, D.C. which would have ended the war very quickly. The Confederacy did not do that because they were not fighting a civil war, they were defending our land.
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Now an illegal invasion into the North was legitimate, although in countless threads you posted the sentiments that"anyone killed while invading another's lands got what they deserved".
As I said, at your next LOSer gathering present the case that Pickett and all of his men got what they deserved.