tugmoose Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I mean, really. We coulda just let 'em become a sweltering Canada. GOOD OL' REBEL SOLDIER by Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A. Oh, I'm a good old Rebel soldier, now that's just what I am;For this "Fair Land of Freedom" I do not give a damn!I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won,And I don't want no pardon for anything I done. I hates the Constitution, this "Great Republic," too!I hates the Freedman's Bureau and uniforms of blue!I hates the nasty eagle with all its brags and fuss,And the lying, thieving Yankees, I hates 'em wuss and wuss! I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do,I hates the Declaration of Independence, too!I hates the "Glorious Union" -- 'tis dripping with our blood,And I hates their striped banner, and I fit it all I could. I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about,Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout.I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow,But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'! Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust!We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got. I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more,But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that's for sartain sure!I do not want no pardon for what I was and am,And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 as a born Southern woman, the content of this song/soliloquy does not represent the views of all Southern people or the South in today's day and time... well not me anyways. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I KNOW! when my husband and I would drive home from vacationing in Destin, FL, we would pass this horrific statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest. this horrible monstrosity was reviled by many in Nashville and the surrounding area. it faced the interstate in Brentwood, TN and it was/is on private property. therefore, nothing could be done to remove it. anyways, we would flip the statue off while in traffic. some fellow drivers passed us and gave us the thumbs up here is the horrible thing: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Talk about a thread coming out of left field. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Yes, the war in the end did bring about emancipation. However, if the south had been allowed to leave, it would have been so isolated from the rest of the developed world (and the north) that it would have been forced to come into line on its own. The fact that a full 80 percent of fighting age white males served in the confederate army would seem to indicate a high level of antipathy toward the union. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oatmealblizzard Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Talk about a thread coming out of left field.Seriously. I'm not too sure what the hell is going on in here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sureshot Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 i know its a generalization, but its pretty amazing how the civil war is still going on in parts of the south, at least in their minds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 forrest quit the klan he founded after 2 or 3 years because he said their tactics were too brutal and not in line with the intimidation and (essentially) terror campaigns he had envisioned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Too violent for Fort Pillow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Talk about a thread coming out of left field.Actually, I just finished the Teaching Company's Civil War course and thought those lyrics were pretty bitchin'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Actually, I just finished the Teaching Company's Civil War course and thought those lyrics were pretty bitchin'. Ok. I was just confused as to where the idea for this thread came from. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Actually, I just finished the Teaching Company's Civil War course and thought those lyrics were pretty bitchin'. yeah, they are bitchin'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 First know use of the word "wuss" in a popular song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 One union, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 One union, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.Sure, but we coulda kept doing that stuff without those guys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Sure, but we coulda kept doing that stuff without those guys.Yeah, but the slaves wouldn't have. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 To quote myself: Yes, the war in the end did bring about emancipation. However, if the south had been allowed to leave, it would have been so isolated from the rest of the developed world (and the north) that it would have been forced to come into line on its own. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Maybe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 The preacher man says it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Sure, but we coulda kept doing that stuff without those guys.It's awfully tough to run a textile mill without any cotton. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkstar Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I KNOW! when my husband and I would drive home from vacationing in Destin, FL, we would pass this horrific statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest. this horrible monstrosity was reviled by many in Nashville and the surrounding area. it faced the interstate in Brentwood, TN and it was/is on private property. therefore, nothing could be done to remove it. anyways, we would flip the statue off while in traffic. some fellow drivers passed us and gave us the thumbs up here is the horrible thing: Sadly this abomination is still there to this day Quote Link to post Share on other sites
m_to_the_c Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Is that Gene Simmons riding a Unicorn? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 If only. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Is that Gene Simmons riding a Unicorn?It would be cooler if it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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