Conquer Club

carnasaur9 wrote:I and my teammate decided to join this tourney because the map is fun, and the concept seems fun, FOR A GAME!

Oh. Me and Mike joined the tourney to kick som Billy Yank but...

That's "Billy Yank Butt."

This is furthermore hillarious, because most people that have an active interest in the civil war always end up sympathyzing with the South and their loveable characters: Lee, Stonewall, Longstreet and JEB Stuart. Whereas the Union Generals were all less worthy people to praise. Grant was a known drunk, Sherman burned down Atlanta... and none of the others could ever get anything done despite huge troop and supply advantages...

I wonder how long before a Yankee team comes up.

"The night they tore ol' dixie down..."

We're joining up.
dshedd, absolute - Rebel Yell - Confederacy

And more opinionated crap:
You can say State's Rights all you want, and its a true statement - but, seriously. Get real. I too have a degree in US History. Bleeding Kansas? Harper's Ferry? Missouri Compromise? Dred Scott? The expansion of non-slave states into the federal government undermining the Southern Slave owning state interests? Yes it is true that all these events have to do with State's Rights. What's the other thing they all have to do with? Slavery. While I agree that the Civil War was fought over states' rights - people sound really freaking pompous when they say that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.

And with regard to the Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln had no real intent to use that as a tool to eliminate slavery. It was mostly an act done to prevent European countries (that had already abolished slavery) from backing the confederacy. It certainly was not the great and wonderful thing that everybody thinks about - it was a foreign policy tactic to prevent the South from getting allies. If it seemed like the North was making it a moral fight, then the Europeans would not join the confederacy. And he therefore didn't free slaves in the north in order to prevent losing support from the Union states that still held slaves, since slavery at the time was a STATE'S RIGHT - but, that was largely irrelevent being that only 4 border states (MO, KY, MD, and DE) in the north still permitted slavery at the time, and MD and DE had extremely FEW slaves.

Lincoln even reinslaved freed people in Kentucky after Union soldiers refused to fight when they were freeing all the slaves in Kentucky... So, this is all good food for thought. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. " ~ Abraham Lincoln.

However great this history lesson/debate is --- all this is irrelevant because the debate is about the racist nature of the confederate flag- not about what the civil war was fought over. And the rascist association of the confederate flag came about in the years AFTER the civil war. It became a racsist symbol during the era of Jim Crow. During the civil rights movement - when people were lynched and hung up with confederate flags - The flags rascist association has little to do with when and why the civil war was being fought. To a civil war junkie - the confederate flag is a symbol of the confederacy, of state's rights. BUT to many (if not most) people it is a symbol of Jim Crow, lynching, and racism. It is certainly understandable why it can be viewed as a symbol of rascism - it was and is quite often used in that way.

lol another confed.

yeah when will someone come to defend the union?

Shedd,
I realize you are highly intelligent, highly educated, and very important. But, please, if u can spare a moment, reread my post.
I never said the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. I did, In fact, acknowledge that slavery was a minor issue. I did not go into a week long diatribe on all the issues and compromises involved, as they did not pertain to the issue.
I would absolutely love to get together and discuss history with you sometime, in another venue. If you enjoy history as you claim, you should be interested in the fact that the two sides who fought the American Civil War were the same two sides (beliefs, lifestyles, etc.) that fought the War of the Roses in England, several hundred years earlier. It is a fascinating study, actually.

Back to the point, one also sounds arrogant, and ignorant, when he/she purposely misquotes or misrepresents the statements of another.

Well, as long as you realize that I'm highly intelligent and very important, then I think I've made my point.

Didn't mean to offend you, I was just enjoying the argument. It just rubbed me wrong with your "I have a master's degree in American History," remark. No need to qualify your intelligent statement with a degree, ya know? So, anyways, I am sorry that I misquoted you, I wasn't being fair at the time. You make great points and I am appreciative of the conversation in this forum or in any venue. Good luck in the tournament, if it ever begins (it won't, we've scared everybody away)...

Cpurcell and Oljock99 Teamname: Stonewall Brigade (I would've actually chosen to be a union, but my teammate, being from Texas, insisted upon being a confed )
---C

wolfpack0530 & hopscotcher
Team name: The chicken-neck-hillbilly slayers or Steady taking cannonballs to the balls. you pick

I wanna be on the north

wolfpack0530 wrote:sign me up. Ill have my partner in 24 hrs.
Team name: The chicken-neck-hillbilly slayers or Steady taking cannonballs to the balls. you pick

ill make yall union since that sounds like union names.

cpurcell wrote:Cpurcell and Oljock99 Teamname: Stonewall Brigade (I would've actually chosen to be a union, but my teammate, being from Texas, insisted upon being a confed )
---C

'nother southern team. lolz.

wolfpack0530 wrote:wolfpack0530 & hopscotcher
Team name: The chicken-neck-hillbilly slayers or Steady taking cannonballs to the balls. you pick

I wanna be on the north

wooooooohooooooooo wolfpack, let's get us some grey coated sons of shooters!!!

*BANG*

er.... I'm with wolfpack0530

I don't have a partner, but I would like to join this tourney... Any other unattached folks out there?

And until someone shows up to partner me, please put me down as a reserve.

(PS- I would prefer to go Yankee, but I'll be a Johnny Reb if that's what it takes to get in)

danryan and Karl_R_Kroenen

The south!

team name = Le Neck Rouge

Karl_R_Kroenen wrote:danryan and Karl_R_Kroenen

The south!

team name = Le Neck Rouge

another rebel

Hopscotcher wrote:

wolfpack0530 wrote:wolfpack0530 & hopscotcher
Team name: The chicken-neck-hillbilly slayers or Steady taking cannonballs to the balls. you pick

I wanna be on the north

wooooooohooooooooo wolfpack, let's get us some grey coated sons of shooters!!!

*BANG*

er.... I'm with wolfpack0530

yes the partner

YoursFalsey wrote:I don't have a partner, but I would like to join this tourney... Any other unattached folks out there?

And until someone shows up to partner me, please put me down as a reserve.

(PS- I would prefer to go Yankee, but I'll be a Johnny Reb if that's what it takes to get in)

reserve for north

dragon dor wrote:Dragon / pascalleke team name ohio section

north i guess

Please sign up the McGowan's Brigade (14th South Carolina). The troops within the brigade are Ugly_Moose and Wellspring.

The south will rise again.

bump

ubcman64/crbluth - Damn Yankees (north)

Team Name: General Grant's Squad

Players: K-dub STDADDIO

We are on the North Side

Go Lincoln!

sending privs

Games sent. To all who don't have a game right now you're on furlough (leave). Not enough Yankee teams.

Yankee Hunters victory!!

Game 5542179

I'm sorry Ohio Section. I regret to inform you that you have been KIA.

Rebel Yell wins round 1

gg guys

I regret to infrom you The chicken-neck-hillbilly-slayers that you have been KIA

The Damn Yankees fall victim to the Dowling Guards

Yep, the Dowling Guards await their next opponent....