And here I thought these were Damn Yankees:
I feel the need to correct a misunderstanding. A Yankee is one who come to Texas from wherever that qualified him to be a Yankee and then returns home. A Damnyankee is one who come to Texas and STAYS.
PS: I married one.
Bro, hope you are 100% correct!Ole Cowboy,
NOPE. - After President Trump comes 8 years of President Pence. = UNTIL/UNLESS the MORON LEFT is purged from the DIMocRAT Party, they are FINISHED as a party that can win the WH and/or control of Congress.
TRUTH is that the DP of 2018 has NOBODY that can beat Trump or Pence.
yours, satx
. . . and Andersonville and Belle Isle were vacation paradises.baboon,
INTERESTING.
Have you read: TO DIE IN CHICAGO: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65 by Professor George Levy??
(That book AND the equally illuminating book DACHAU IN AMERICA: Collected Documents & Letters from Point Lookout POW Camp 1862-65 by Dr. Raymond Wills will tell any thinking person about how CRUEL & RUTHLESS that the Radical Unionists were during TWBTS & why those of us whose family members suffered & died at those 2 DY HELLHOLES will neither forgive nor forget what was done to the thousands of helpless victims.)
Note: Our family had 4 members murdered in coldblood at Point Lookout & one soldier-boy beaten to death with rifle butts at Camp Douglas.
yours, satx
No, it's not ok. But horrible brutality was present at the camps I mentioned too. This is not a battle of equivalence, sir. You, somewhat understandably (given your family history), only focus on the brutality of the one side but seem to be unwilling to view that brutality existed on both sides. I don't condone anything that happened to your forbears and other CSA soldiers at their prisons; however, for you to not recognize that there was brutality aplenty at Andersonville and Belle Isle is simply amazing--regardless of what the "official" US Army report states. Captain Henry Wirz (the Commandant of Andersonville) was even executed as a war criminal after the war. That wasn't done for "no reason". There is very little good to say about the Civil War, and that's a fact.
As you well know--a commanding officer is responsible for EVERYTHING that happens aboard their command . . . even if they're not there. I'm aware of the correction of the record; however, he WAS executed. That much is a fact. It's not for me, or even you to say whether it was deserved or not. You've mentioned the family connections with the Wirz's previously here on TGT, but I expect you'll do so again, as you love to name-drop and reminisce. For a fact, Captain Wirz was only recommended for promotion to major and was never actually promoted to that rank. The name he served under and was executed under was "Wirz" and not "Wurtz". :cheers:diesel1959,
It just so happens that I'm a family friend of Brigadier General Heinrich Wirz (SZ Army Retired), the great-grand nephew of MAJ Wurtz.= GEN Wirz has been our houseguest numerous times when he visited the USA on The Wirz Family Foundation business.
(Btw, at one point in 2009, we had all six of the senior flag officers of the SZ Army as houseguests at one time. = It was "fairly close quarters" at our house that week, as we only had a 4BR house, for my lady, myself, our daughter & 6 SZ officers. Nonetheless, a good time was had by all.).
Fyi, the official records of a session of The USA Board for the Correction of Military Records, sitting at St Louis, MO cleared MAJ Wurtz of ANY criminal behavior at Andersonville.The report, which was under the jurisdiction of & endorsed by a US Military Judge (Brigadier General, USA) found that, "Maj Henry Wurtz, MD was convicted of crimes, by a court of no lawful jurisdiction, which he could not have committed as he was far away & hospitalized with a severely wounded arm at the time of the claimed crimes, upon knowingly perjured evidence & was therefore convicted & executed unlawfully by the Army. He therefore is exonerated of any criminal behavior at Andersonville Military Prison & his service record is hereby cleared of that conviction & of any dishonorable behavior."
It's a good thing to know the truth of what one mentions on the WWW, as you never know who you are talking to.
yours, satx
It's not for me, or even you to say whether it was deserved or not.
As you well know--a commanding officer is responsible for EVERYTHING that happens aboard their command . . . even if they're not there. I'm aware of the correction of the record; however, he WAS executed. That much is a fact. It's not for me, or even you to say whether it was deserved or not. You've mentioned the family connections with the Wirz's previously here on TGT, but I expect you'll do so again, as you love to name-drop and reminisce. For a fact, Captain Wirz was only recommended for promotion to major and was never actually promoted to that rank. The name he served under and was executed under was "Wirz" and not "Wurtz". :cheers:
I am as nervous as a hot mouthed intern around bill clinton that this is wrong and democrats are primed. Remember republicans run on policy. Democrats run on demographics and they are pandering so hard for the brown vote now and have teh black vote pretty locked up. They went as far as having a would be cop killer's baby mama ( mike brown) onstage at the DNC like a hero.Bro, hope you are 100% correct!