Why the South Can't get over the Civil War
Admittedly, most of the Civil War battles were fought in Southern territory, but I've always wondered why the South just can't let it go. My sister, who went to college in Virginia told me that every year they have a campus-wide football game between the East and the West. I asked why they didn't do a North-South game, and she told me that they had tried it, but it always ended in a fight.
While I was at the Kentucky State Capitol Building, last weekend, I snapped a photo of this plaque. Do you think the fact that the Southern states are riddled with this type of memento might be contributing to the situation?
Text of the plaque:
Near here, on Nov. 7, 1864 four innocent Confederate prisoners were excuted in reprisal for the murder of Union Supporter Robert Graham of Peaks Mill, Franklin Co. All Kentuckians, Elijah Horton of Carter, Thomas Hunt and John Long of Mason, Thornton Lafferty of Pendleton Counties. Hunt's body reburried at Marysville, others in the Frankfort Cemetery.
posted by Madeline | 9:39 AM
6 Comments:
Them's fightin' words, Maddie.
NO - that's definitely not the reason. The REASON is because the North is trying to obliterate the family-oriented, agrarian way of life that the Southerners with their Appalachian ways are embracing.
There's nothing wrong with Appalacia - extra fingers and toes always come in handy.
Humility and Pride!
Someone is always pointing out the wrongs (if there were any) done by the South during the War!
However the wrongs done by the North, and there were plenty--to name the worst--Shermans March to the Sea, are always justified because the North came out as winner.
Besides, Holy Father Blessed Pius the IX was on the side of the South! Period!
And you have so much pride that you have to post Anonymously.
C'mon. Everyone knows that the Civil War had travesties on both sides, but it seems that the South has decided to pass their antipathy for the North onto the subsequent generations, while the North is spending their time building up a better country.
Well, the real problem is that the 'Civil' War was anything but 'civil'for one thing. The other more important reason that we in the South, and expecially here in the "North State", have kept the War in memory, is that we refer to it as it was...the "War of Northern Aggression". Herein lies the REAL tale. Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, y'all!
Before I start smoking I have a question, what war is civil? Oh, I guess if you put a Southern accent on and wear a poofy dress while your ahem. . . servants? bring you iced tea it may seem, well, civil. I'm going to start smoking now and if Mom asks me why I'm smoking I'm going to tell her it's because Tradcatholic said too. Oh, and you have to take yourself pretty seriously to be able to say, "the war of Northern aggression" Who has time for that?
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