Yeah, the night they drove old Dixie down was the night that Virgil Caine looked up to find himself up to his necks in bluecoats. He took the train to Richmond, it fell. Yeah, there was a date you can put on that. The day that the first Union soldiers streamed into what had been the Confederate capital--actually black soldiers under command of General Alonzo G. Draper, who had led the largest strike in U.S. history, that of the shoemakers in 1860.
You could certainly see it as pro-Confederate, but is also a lament of defeat that suited Americans in the age of the Vietnam War. Btw, most of the ranks of the Confederate army were, in fact, conscripted or forced into the army under the threat of conscription. Yeah, there are lots of studies saying they weren't and that significant portions of those in the Army of Northern Virginia were slaveholders or from slaveholding families, but these were numbers based on the army before the volunteers were shredded and they began dragooning any white boy unable to run fast enough into their slaveholder's army. And most of them had more sense than their idiot leaders and wound up voting on secession with their feet, the only way that was left to them. Again, this is just the numbers telling us this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#414): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/414 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76186108/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
