As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
It might seem strange, but the greatest Cavalry commander of the American Civil War was an infantry officer in Phil Sheridan, as that is where his life began in the military associated with the Dragoons in the Northwest.
Upon the advent of war, Sheridan reported for duty in Missouri, where he was president of an audit of the military accounts of the west. He soon was in place as quartermaster in the region under General Curtis, and was busy repairing mills for grain grinding, appropriating meat supply and horses for the army of the west.
He soon became embattled in an Iowa banker who was a junior quartermaster was part of a ring stealing Missouri horses and selling them to the government. Sheridan figuring out what was taking place in robbing Americans, put a stop to it and seized the horses.
The thieves then protested to which Curtis ordered payment to the thieves. Sheridan refused and left command under an impending court martial.
Being out of the district, he was no loner subject to Curtis and came under the orders of General Halleck, who sent him out to purchase horses, and as horses were at the best price in Wisconsin and Illinois, Sheridan took up residence at Chicago.
The banker who replaced him, as the quartermaster carried large sums of cash for payment for stock, was later convicted for stealing a fortune from the US Treasury where he was a clerk. There was the reality that large numbers of thoroughbred horses appeared in Iowa also from the American south.
The world usually thinks that great men simply walk on roses to their successes in life. The world thinks that everyone is a patriot and that numbers of money grubbers are not attached to every enterprise.
Captain Sheridan did not want to stay in the quartermasters corp nor join his command at Jefferson Baracks in Missouri, but desired to join the battle in the east. He was doing an immensely effective job in organization for the army of the west, and common sense was that he should have stayed in comfort and not risked the dangers of battle, but instead for the good of America this honest officer rose to command the United States cavalry in a division which was larger than most armies.
These things of war get lost in the profiteering and how many beloved horses or pet cows were stolen and slaughtered by the military for schemer's profit. If this were your property, it is a probable reality that you would have hated the Union with a passion and the army as well.
That Missouri and Kansas was typical of the jayhawking, which is a term derived from Missouri bandits stealing Kansas horses, and the Kansas people as Buffalo Bill Cody explained jawhawked horses back from stealing them from innocent Missourians, is a reality of which large sections of America experienced this predation.
This jayhawking took place all through the South in property seized in "war", unless of course one was a mason, and then those properties were left untouched. That property then appeared at auctions or sales to the Union Officers.
Phil Sheridan was requistioning supplies in paying for them, but what took place in other arenas was government sanctioned piracy in order to break Southerners.
Some of the worst leftists in America had their roots in war profiteering. You know of that snot at the Washington Post in Dana Milbank?
Milbank is not a recognizable name, until I mention the name Borden. That name might ring a bell if you know of Borden's canned milk. The partner of Borden was Jeremiah Milbank who took that money and invested it in acquiring railroads and lands in the west. That money was all generated from government contracts for canned milk in the Civl War.
The greatest liberals in America all have blood on their hands, as they point to military industrial complexes to divert attention.
It is always more interesting to know of the intrigue behind the wars, than the Ken Burns propaganda of "that poor lil Nig" and that suffering father Abraham.
You hear today of the transfer of wealth in these Obama programs, but no one bothers to speak of the illegal confiscation of horses, mules, grain, slaves and other property without compensation by criminal elements in the Union forces.
That Borden milk was money from poor people being put into debt by Abraham Lincoln bonds. Yes free the slaves from bondage, but it created a system of bondage for the entire white South and industrial ghetto North.
America never ended slavery. It simply replaced lazy blacks for work to death immigrant whites in smelters and mines.
Yes you never hear of those realities as this was all a just and righteous conflict, but no one is to look at the graves of all those white people in war fodder and industrial graves.
This same jayhawk system has evolved into the 21st century into a genocidal scheme against all Americans in being now refined. It loots legally and makes the American the criminal for questioning being pirated.
It has always been a criminal enterprise and the people stolen from never had any redress, and those who expose the criminality become the Edward Snowden's prosecuted by the government.
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