side that won, just happened to run slower that day than the side that lost.
Yankee sugar to give me diabetes.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Each of us has a fiction.
For example we have been told of the gallantry and bravery of the Confederacy and yet in civil war, perhaps the bravest were those at the end under Texas General, Hood, sending his troops to be massacred in Tennessee, to teach them discipline.
No one really ever talks about the Battle of Seven Pines at the start of the Civil War, because events devolved there to expose a reality of what that war really was.
It was all set up by the events of another horrific battle which has now been questioned on semantics of meaning. All of us have heard of the legend of Stonewall Jackson, so brave with his foot cavalry. Yet like the word with two meanings, it has come to light that other commanders that day who bore the brunt of the Union forces, were upset at General Jackson for lagging behind and not coming up. Their idea of "Look at General Jackson, standing there like a stone wall", had nothing to do with his determination in standing against the enemy, but it had to do with their frustration, in he was not moving to their aid.
War is like all things in life, a matter of perception.
At Seven Pines, the Confederates had a series of victories which drove back the Union forces under General McClellan in humiliating defeat.
One must understand in the Civil War, that the Union was winning at Bull Run, until the last engagement. In most instances in the early Civil War engagements, it was the force which was doing the attacking which was defeated, just as General Lee was stopped at Antietam and Gettysburg. One does not hear that reality that the offensive lines were losing in battles and the defensive lines won.
This was born out at Seven Pines. The Union was in retreat and set up position. The Confederates came up, and the defeate Union forces slaughtered the oncoming Confederates. They shattered them, drove them back into the trees, and did so repeatedly.
The background of this was two telling stories. General MacGruder who would disappear after this and who commanded at Yorktown, had come across the Union cache of whiskey with his men. They were all drunk to hysteria when ordered to charge the Union lines. Literally the Confederates were drugged and out of their minds.
What followed in this was the report that the Confederate Cavalry was not moving to outflank the Union lines, but was instead witnessed with swords drawn, driving straggler Confederates out of the trees so they would continue the charge.
Some call that cowardice. Most would call it common sense in saving their lives.
It would appear the myth of the Confederate bravery, held more in the incompetence of the Union lines. Media could not print that Stonewall Jackson was lagging behind to not fight, as it made the Union lines look worse in their getting whipped by people who were not fighitng.
The same at Seven Pines. The media could not print that the South had lost because they were drunk and out of their minds, and cowards had to be driven forward by their own Cavalry, because it made the Union lines look like that is all they could win against.
It was not until the Union commanders of Grant and Sherman, forced their Soldiers to battle and Robert Lee was forced to stand and fight, that insane bravery took place in men marching forward to be slaughtered as the British had the Canadians do in two world wars to their national demise.
Personally, there is nothing American about marching in lines to be slaughtered. Americans started out fighting wars a Rangers, and they sat behind trees and ambushed Indians, French and English to their perfection in using a guerilla warfare that even terrorized the Indian terrorists to not want to fight Americans.
Just as on January 6th the propaganda is fiction as the people were not domestic terrorists. but you can not run a police state political operation against sheep. You need wolves and Americans will be subject to even worse propaganda in a civil war which follows if the cartel is successful in engaging this now with Chinese PLA troops.
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