YEAH BABY the saints won their first super bowl in their forty two years of existance! WOOT WOOT go saints
What If…?
There are always those historians who will try to theoretisize what the world, the war, and the country would have been like had the South won. I tend not to join in on such conversations because I find it foolhardy to engage in such things because God has had a plan for history since the beginning of time and everything will work out according to his plans, but on this occasion I think I will give my views on the subject.
There would have been many changes to this once great country had the war gone in a different direction. I think it would have started like this. The election of 1864 between Lincoln and McClellan would have been won not by Lincoln but by McClellan. This in and of itself would have had a great impact upon the war torn United States. If McClellan had been elected he would have lobbied for a stoppage of the war. McClellan was an antiwar Northern Democrat, he was already lobbing for a peace treaty with the Southern politicians. I think this would have gone through because at this point in the war the South was just looking to finish it I think rather then win it. So this would have been a big what if.
Another what if and a very popular one at that is the subject of what if Chamberlin had not held his line on Little Round Top during the battle of Gettysburg. My opinion and the opinion of many others is that the army would have been almost completely lost. Chamberlin was on the extreme left of the entire army. Had he been removed the flank would have been rolled up like a cigar and the army could have been routed on their own territory. This would have caused major demoralization in the army and also in the hearts and minds of the people. If the Union Army had suffered such a defeat on their own home soil they would have been more then likely willing to lay down their arms. The North also would have lost a great deal more men then they already had in the fierce fighting of the previous two days.
These are just two of the many what ifs discussed in most historical circles and I have given my honest opinion on them. Feel free to comment!!
Psalms 27:1-3
Psalms 27:1-3
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident
This passage was quoted in the movie Gods and Generals. This is a verse that during the Civil War could have offered the soldiers some peace and comfort. In the way that God will be your strength and comfort in times of war and hardship. These verses can offer you that same comfort
Top 10 Places you can’t go
this doesn’t really have anything to do with the civil war or american history but it is a rather interesting article so here is.
The Story of Phineas Gage
Sorry I didn’t type out the story for myself but I thought that this article would surfice. This is about a man from the pre-civil war america who got in quite an accident. Enjoy
http://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/gagepage/Pgstory.php
HAPPY NEW YEAR
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I hope you all have an awesome one. may God bless you in this new year
Merry Christmas
Merry Chrismtas to every one! I hope you have an awesome christmas and I hope you remeber the reason for the season the birth of christ. Matthew 1:18-2:23
My Resources
I have many books and things at my use for when I write this Blog. I think you (my readers) might enjoy them to so I will give you a list of all my books and resources.
1. General Lee’s Army— Joseph Glaatthar
2. Personal Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant— Ulysses Grant
3. Reading the man— Elizebeth Brown Pryor
4. Civil War Battlefield Guide— Jeff Shaara
5. For Cause and Comrades— James McPherson
6. Eyewitness to the Civil War— J. Steven Wilkins
7. Never Call Retreat— Bruce Catton
8. Christ In the Camp— William Jones
9. Visiting Our Past— National Geographic Society
10.Historic Places— Readers Digest
11. The American Civil War 365 Days— Margaret Wagner
12. The Civil War Experience 1861-1865— Jay Wertz
13. American History: A Timeline of the Civil War
14. Witness to the Civil War John D. Wright
15. The Red Badge of Courage— Stephen Crane
16. Biography of John Wesley Powell— Marian T. Place
17.Biography of Sacajawea— Jerry Seibert
18. Biography Abigail Adams— Regina Z. Kelly
19. Biography of Ben Franklin— Augusta Stevenson
20. Biography Miles Standish— Augusta Stevenson
21. The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln’s Army— Bruce Catton
22. The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road— Bruce Catton
23. The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness At Appomattox— Bruce Catton
24. Ken Burn’s Civil War Series
25. American Civil War BattleFields DVD series
26. American Civil War DVD set
25 and 26 are similar but different things
All of the books and videos/DVDs are available on www.amazon.com and http://www.ebay.com I hope you enjoy these as much as I do
Phil Kearney
Phil Kearney was a man that you could make a legend out of. He was brave to the last moment of his life and gave his all for his country. All heroes also have their downfalls. Phil Kearney had both his ups and his downs and I will tell you about both.
Phil Kearney was born June 2, 1815 in New York, New York. He was the son of Philip kearney Sr. and Sarah Watts. When Kearney was a boy he was called “A perfect horse killer” because he was a very reckless rider. At the age of Seven Kearney was struck by tragedy. His mother died. It took time as one would expect to recover from the grief but the young Kearney eventually returned to his to his normal hot tempered self.
Early in life Philip Jr. had aspirations to be in the army. When he was ready to take the entry exam for West Point his father and Grandfather paid him $1500 not to join the army. They wanted him to become a lawyer. Philip Jr. eventually accepted their decision. Kearney studied law and entered into the law firm of his cousin Peter Augustus Jay but in the back of his mind the longing to be in the army was always there.
In 1836 Kearney’s Grandfather died and left him over one Million dollars in inheritance making him one of the richest men in America at the time. Now that he was a legal adult without financial troubles and out from the control of his father Philip Jr. joined the army.
With the help of his uncle Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney and General Winfield Scott whom he had met and impressed while in law school received a commission as second lieutenant of the first dragoons a cavalry regiment. He reported to his uncle at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on June 10, 1847. He served here for two years.
Kearney turned out to be a well-liked if not rather eccentric officer. He was always quick to encourage and praise the work of those below him in rank. His comrades often questioned why he would join the army if he had all that money and such a good social standing. Kearney often used his fortune to help outfit his company. After two years as 2nd lieutenant of the 1st dragoons he was assigned to the military district commandant Henry Atkinson as an Aide-de-camp. Kearney was not necessarily happy about his new assignment but there was an upside to it. Kearney fell in love with the commandants sister-in-law Diana Bullitt. Everyone thought that Diana and Philip would get married but Kearney did something that suprised everyone including Diana. He accepted an assignment overseas.
His new assignment was in the France. He was to observe the French Cavalry which at the time was thought to be the best in the world. The United States government sent three young men over and Kearney was choosen as one of them. He was chosen partly because his Uncle Stephen Kearney was the one making the selections. He arrived in France in 1839 just in time to take part in the Duke of Orleans’s expedition into the Algiers. This was just the opportunity that Kearney had been looking for. This assignment gave him the chance to fight in an actual war rather then just leading troops during peace time.
This is part One part two will go shortly
Lincoln’s Second Innagural Address
This is one of the most epic documents from the Civil War. It is full of all the emotion that Lincoln had from the war and all that had happened to him. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do.
At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it–all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war–seeking to dissole [sic] the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!” If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope–fervently do we pray–that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether”
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Thanks to www.showcase.netins.net for the info
