https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/b...hern-folkways/
This is rather long....
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/b...hern-folkways/
This is rather long....
''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee
sadly the south had the talent, and drive, .... but lacked the resources
True!
''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
“As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”
"You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."
NBF was one of my most favorite famous soldiers, his exploits were driving the union crazy, a true soldiers, soldier..................a true leader of men......."DO AS I DO, NOT AS I SAY"