With a victorious Confederacy the South would have boomed. The Mississippi would have been opened up and trade up and down it would have thrived....
If Lee had won at Gettysburg he would have marched his army using Jackson's (We are working under the assumption that he survived.) "foot...
We would have been divided into two nations. One with slavery and one without. The competition between the two would have been interesting. I...
If the South had won the Civil War slavery would have had to end because it was just so immoral. That fact that it didn't pay wasn't so much of...
Shouldn't everybody shower before entering the/a pool? I mean, common courtesy, right?
For whatever it's worth, I live near Paisley, Oregon. They have found evidence that Indians were here 14,000 years ago, which pushes the number...
You must read Freemantle's book. It is a first hand, eyewitness account of life in the Old South and slavery. He entered thru Mexico as to not...
Another part to that story of smallpox infected blankets is, that the steamer Far West was loaded with people sick with smallpox. Blankets that...
I well remember when it happened. We all watched it on TV. To fake such an event would have been a very big deal and to get away with it even...
Lincoln said that if he had to keep slavery to secure the Union he would. He also said that if he had to end slavery to secure the Union he'd do...
Slave ownership by Blacks was not uncommon. One must remember that when slavery was legal it was seldom questioned, certainly it was not...
I always thought it interesting that the English hang a pheasant for a few weeks before they eat it. When you go to Harrod's in London they have...
One wonders if we would have reunified. I lived in Mississippi for three years in the 60's. Southerners did not want to be Yankees and they...
All it would have taken for the South to have won the Civil War would have been for Great Britain to have recognized the Confederacy. Then things...
There are two pertinent questions: one, could the South have won the battle of Gettysburg...answer: absolutely. Two, if the South had won G-Berg...
Consider for a moment if Jackson had survived his amputated arm. He would have remained the commander of his army and Ewell would have remained a...
England would have had a problem with slavery in the Confederacy. It had been illegal for over half a century in Britain and they would have...
Guilty of what?
The eating of dogs is very common over the world and used to be here. Clark of Lewis and Clark fame enjoyed a dog meat more than any other kind...
With all of the racial unrest in the country it might be a good idea to put this TV show aside for a while.
In the fifties a book entitled "If the South Had Won the Civil War" was published and it was popular. I read it. I recall what it said. (Long...
Unless nuclear weapons are sprinkled all over the country we are likely to be hit by just one.... In the event of a single nuclear strike a few...
The most important step has been left out. It is, in the event of a nuclear strike: Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
I'll bet there are a lot of openings in the beach resorts. Book now. There are advantages and disadvantages to everything.
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