Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]yep--NC was last to secede and suffered the most casualties in the war i don't know what percentage owned slaves both sides had their Koch Brothers driving the population even then ric On Dec 12, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote: > >> just don't forget that the specific "telling" that set them off was the >> one about owning human beings >> >> AND they may have seen the "telling" as inevitable, it had not happened >> >> i understand there are many subtleties involved, but there have long been >> efforts to whitewash the event as having had nothing to do with owning >> other human beings just as they did pigs and cows >> >> we just need to be careful about letting that attempt go unchallenged >> >> ric >> > > Yeah, that too, and my (our?) great great grandfather who had a little > scratch farm in Lenoir County, NC and enlisted early on, wounded twice and > fought until he was captured right at the end? > > What about guys like him? What made them tick? The great pay, good food > and working conditions? > > http://www.sonc.com/william_carter.htm > > You gotta wonder. > > > > > >> >> >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It was and is about Washington telling the States what they have to do >>> about anything. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information