Robert E. Lees view of secession, late 1860- early 1861 The following is a synopsis of the views of Robert E Lee on secession in the 4 months before he resigned his commission in the US Army Largely taken from William Southall Freeman's work on Lee: ----- Letter to his son Custis, December 14, 1860: "It is, however, my only hope for the
William T. Sherman Warns the South - American Civil War Forums In a 24 Dec 1860 conversation with David Boyd, one of his professors at the Louisiana Seminary [which would later become LSU] regarding South Carolina's secession, Sherman is reported to have said: "You, you the people of the South, believe there can be such a thing as peaceable secession You
How Many Southerners Favored Secession? - American Civil War Forums Prior to the start of the Civil War, on April 12, 1861, how many Southerners actually were in favor of secession? There's no way of knowing exactly, since there was no polling back then and only one Southern state actually put the issue to a voter referendum The closest thing we have to a
Master List of Contemporary Quotes Identifying Slavery as the Principal . . . On another recent thread, when a poster cited the first substantive paragraph of a well-known source, the State of Mississippi's Declaration of Immediate Causes for Secession, as evidence that secessionist leaders considered the future of slavery to be the principal issue behind their actions
Jefferson Album - Texas Civil War Town Secession Hall Built in 1856, this house takes its grandiose title from having been the home of Judge William Smith Todd, another member of the Texas Secession Convention and a signer of the Texas Ordinance of Secession
Thomas Jefferson, Secession, and States Rights The record seems clear that Thomas Jefferson believed in the right of secession In 1803, Jefferson said he did not care if America split into two confederacies: Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the
Secession Cockade? - American Civil War Forums How does one identify a secession cockade? I picked this ambrotype up at an estate sale in rural Lincoln Talladega AL area Looking for more info
Secession. Let’s do it this time. - New York City - New York (NY . . . Yeah, I guess you have a point The Bronx used to be middle-class idyllic Why did it decline so shockingly in only half a century, and why is that so rarely talked about? Everyone seems to assume the Bronx has been a rundown, criminal place since the time immemorial but there are plenty of people still alive who actually remember their childhood in the totally different, safe and
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