We’ve all been taught the Civil War ended with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865, but the Confederacy still had armies in the field months afterward. Others would say Juneteenth, 1865, but they would be wrong too.
The official end of the Civil War didn’t come until over a year later, August 20, 1866. More
On Juneteenth, obviously.
Strictly speaking it was not a civil war. The Southern states declared their independence from the bankster North and formed their own government. The war was about the loss of the cash cow tariffs levied on Southern ports. Freeing the slaves was just inflammatory propaganda to justify the invasion of a sovereign nation.
They just did not want their holiday to be in the “Dog Days” of summer.
“Ovah? Ovah?! It’s not ovah ’til Ah say it’s ovah!”
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The dems are still fighting & still hold slaves, just ask lbj
yesterday at 1:21 pm.
It NEVER ended. But it has ALWAYS been between those who love liberty and thosecwho oppose it…which is completely different from how it is typically framed.
This country never had a civil war. That is a lie. The southern states wanted to leave the union, not take over. And slavery wasn’t the issue. Lincoln offered an amendment to preserve slavery. It was money.
Dishonest Abe was a great little propagandist.
PS Source, Lowell (not questioning your veracity, just curious; this is a new one on me).
NIdahoOrthodox nails it, although the slavery angle only came in when Dishonest Abe was running out of money and had to beg the Abolitionists for more. The excuse was firing on Ft Sumter, treason and all.
Republicans freed the slaves on January 1, 1863. But, we had to kill a few hundred thousand more democrats to make it final.
Sounds like we need another paid Federal holiday. I propose: Augie 2.0. Enjoy the day off mofo’s.
It never did, because we didn’t put every Confederate officer up against the wall and shoot him for mutiny, and we didn’t hang every Confederate politician and bureaucrat for treason. That’s why we still have the Democrat party