American Civil War Battles

[Smitty-48]

Just as an aside, preview of the epilogue.

The war caused a fiscal crisis.

This is why they went to war against the Lakota.

The gold was in dem Black Hills, the war against the Sioux Nation, was for America to pay her bills.

[Smitty-48]

In terms of the armies themselves, I love all four of them.

I love Marse Robert, Billy Sherman, Nate Forrest, and Phil Sheridan.

What's not to love?

Speaking of Forrest and Sherman, have you seen Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma?

It talks about Forrest's correspondence with Sherman around '73 concerning the early possibilty of US/Spanish war over Cuba. Bedford offered his services to the US, and Sherman reportedly sent glowing recomendations / demands to the War Dept. basically insisting that he get NBF in on the fight with him.

Given how business turned in Memphis after the war and NBF's disposition, I expect Bedford would have liked nothing better than to go to Cuba and lay it to them.

General Forrest is no enigma to me, and obviously an American Imperialist.

Like I say, he is Confederate Darth Vader.

He was a military genius who also possessed the tactical prowess to kill people with his bare hands.

Darth Vader has always been my favorite, even more than Han Solo himself.

I am one with the Force and the Force is with me, yeehaw, commies.

[Smitty-48]

People feared him.

Even when he was an old man.

He was still scary then, they didn't know when he might get angry and chop their fuckin' heads of with a saber.

He is the Ultimate Southron Duelist and Horse Soldier.

He just didn't have to duel much, since other than the Yankees, people were fuckin' terrified of him.

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Bear in mind, General Forrest was not a Virginia Blue Blood, he was a Scots-Irish Redneck.

Self made made, pulled himself up by the bootstraps, slavery was the only source of his wealth.

And he was cut throat, like a fuckin' land pirate, no doubt.

Forrest was the Dixie Mafia before there was such a thing.

Of all the Generals, Forrest was the one most likely to close with and kill you himself, in a murderous rage.

[C-Mag]

Just as an aside, preview of the epilogue.

The war caused a fiscal crisis.

This is why they went to war against the Lakota.

The gold was in dem Black Hills, the war against the Sioux Nation, was for America to pay her bills.

This is something I know a little about in Civil War history.

Gold in the Western Territorries was a big deal for both the North and South, there was a little proxy war going on in the territories over gold. While the short term affects were small, the long term ramifications were huge.

All Western policy in the Civil War was driven by gold. There were Confederate sympathizers in the west, concentrated in the Rocky Mountain region. The US government moved rapidly to keep the Confederates from gaining claim to any new gold strikes. This included some battles like Glory Pass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass
It led to territorial lines being changed and new territories being formed. This was done to isolate areas known to be hotbeds of Confederate Support. Idaho was huge, then gold was discovered in 1862 in what would become Montana and Congress at the order of the POTUS redrew the lines in a matter of days to cutoff Boise from having any control of the Gold fields in the new Montana Territorry. Union locked that shit up fast.

Idaho was the Texas of the West

[Smitty-48]

The only ones ever really put up a fight, was the Lakota.

The Lakota are the fiercest Indians of them all.

The Lakota are the Praetors of the Indians, the Black Hills was their Rome.

[Smitty-48]

This is why a don't weep for them, the Lakota were imperialists, they simply ran into a bigger and badder empire.

Live by the sword, die by the sword, no tears need be shed, for the wicked.

[C-Mag]

Read about the Calusa in Florida, they fucking killed Spaniards on site. They seemed to know what lay in store if they traded with them or allowed them to set up camp, eventurally became the Cherokee and continued the fight. The Calusa fought invaders for nearly 400 years until Ol Hickory fixed their ass good...…………….. Elizabeth Warren comes from a long line of fighters with high cheek bones.

A few tribes fought back, but the Sioux managed some victories and resistence; one of them very big.

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All Indians were warriors to a certain degree, but only the Lakota believed that they were the Indian Master Race.

They terrorized all the other Indians into submission and ruled the sacred Black Hills with an iron fist.

[Smitty-48]

It's like, there's Europeans, and then there is the North German Protestants of Prussia and Hanover.

The Lakota were the North German Protestants of the Indians.