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"The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman -
Actually, Grant also gave amnesty to the Confederate officers -- with Lincoln's enthusiastic support. That was probably his greatest accomplishment. Under the terms he gave Lee, the Confederates were allowed to return to their homes "and remain there unmolested." That set the precedent for other surrenders.
Grant was one of only two officers in the Civil War who had strategic sense (the other was Winfield Scott.) He understood the true goal of the war was to restore the Union, with the former Confederate States rejoining. And he knew the way to do that was to be magnanimous in victory, not vindictive -- something many people these days seem not to understand.Comment
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My first cousin, three times removed, was Milton Wylie Humphrey, who on the 19th of May, 1863, at the Battle of Fayetteville (WVA), used indirect fire to shoot over a grove of trees and drop shells on Union gunners on the other side.
'My piece opened first and was immediately answered, and my third or fourth round cutting away the Yankee colors, they shelled us so vigorously and accurately with several guns that we were compelled to move to a place nearby where we could not be seen for the timber in front of us and the smoke behind us rising from the woods beyond the road which were on fire.'
This was a perfect opportunity for Humphreys to try his theory of indirect fire. He knew that the fort was approximately a mile away. From experience, he knew the range of his cannon. By using trigonometry, he calculated how far he would have to elevate the muzzle of his piece to shoot over the stand of black pines in front of him and drop a shell into the vicinity of the fort. The distance from the gun to the fort formed the base of a triangle; the trajectory of the shell was the hypotenuse. Once the shell expended its momentum, it would drop to earth.
This was the first use of indirect fire in combat.Comment
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He also invented the question mark."The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. UllmanComment
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It's a shame that George Floyd didn't have COVID-19 at the time of his death because THAT'S what would have been listed as the cause of death and all this BLM, rioting, murders, burning, and other democrat inspired events wouldn't have happened.Comment
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Absolutely! Because an asymptomatic individual in Fl killed in an auto accident tested positive at the hospital, death was listed as Kung Flu--because fed money reimburses the hospital at a higher rate for Wuhan than for other mortalities. ANYTHING to maintain the hysteria at fever-pitch!Comment
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They were also fed up with the taxation imposed upon them. Early days of socialism.
" The South produced and exported most of the goods in America, and under the tariff, that resulted in the South paying about 75% of all taxes in America."
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