Just imagine today is spring in 1862.Who will you sign up for? UNION ARMY? Or CONFEDERATE ARMY?



Vote!

Well, I'm from the Land of Lincoln and I agree with their side of the battle, so I suppose I would sign up for the North.

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"A generation of American people which receives the answers to all its moral dilemmas by seeking intervention from Washington will be a people incompetent to decently regulate their own lives. Such a people will not remain moral or free for long."

"I believe ossamas and palestinian interpretation of islam is the most correct and logically sound." - metalted

I'd do what most people did in my area back then...make money selling shit to both sides.

I do have a relative who was a horse handler for the South. Alstophius Lang, I believe his name was. But, I think he lived in Southern Virginia/North Carolina.

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"Anyone that needs what they want, and doesn’t want what they need
I want nothing to do with
And to do what I want
And to do what I please
Is first on my to-do list"
-Gnarls Barkley, "Going On" lyrics

Well, I have a few ancestors who fought for the confederacy, two who ended up in Union Prisons, one of them being Elmira Prison, cant remember the other one.

As for me, I'll be selling things with Speakeasy.

BTW - Speakeasy, do you mean to tell me you have resistance blood in you? *makes a mental note*

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"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." - Oscar Wilde

Yeah, there's a lot of Confederate blood in my family, too.

Too bad I'd have to kill them.

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When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Definitely the confederacy. Robert E. Lee is a dreamboat.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Yea, but Stonewall Jackson is totally annoying. At least, if he's anything like how he was depicted in Gods And Generals.

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"Anyone that needs what they want, and doesn’t want what they need
I want nothing to do with
And to do what I want
And to do what I please
Is first on my to-do list"
-Gnarls Barkley, "Going On" lyrics

From my dad's side, yea. Everyone from my mom's side was still chillin' in Germany at the time.

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"Anyone that needs what they want, and doesn’t want what they need
I want nothing to do with
And to do what I want
And to do what I please
Is first on my to-do list"
-Gnarls Barkley, "Going On" lyrics

Tough call. Slavery is wrong. But legally, the South is in the right. But the North is much better positioned to win. I think I'd do my best to sit it out. If not, I'm not sure the South would have me or want me, given that I'm from Illinois and sound like it.

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Today's forecast: Government corruption.

Tomorrow's forecast: 100% chance of more 'politics as usual'

Maybe it's finally time to vote Libertarian

so most seem to follow family lines here...

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Anyone with a vision needs to see an eye doctor. -Helmut Schmidt.

Well, if the Civil War were today, I would support the North.

However, my family was decidedly not here yet at the time.

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"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

Many historians say that the Confederacy actually had a greater chance of winning the War Between the States than the Thirteen Colonies had of winning their rebellion against the Crown. Some say, however, that they should have opted for a long, guerilla like war. I am not sure about the latter theory, the Union had the advantage of more people and industries.

There are one major cause in favour of each side. The States of the Confederacy had the sovereign right to leave the Union. However, the States of the Union were correct in condemning the slavery of the South.

Over all, I would favour States' rights, especially if hearing Abe Lincoln talking about "one nation, undivided". However, if living in the North, I would not want to wage war against my own State but would try to stay out of the war. Maybe I would move north, to Canada (where they know how to spell and have a monarch as Head of State ).

If living in my own home country, I would not necessarily take sides at all.

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

Salutes to Major drgoodtrips.Hes in the confederate army!

My father's side came from Ireland to Canada. My great great grandfather fought in the Spanish American war. My father was born in Manhatten.

My mother's side were among the first to come to America from England. Her family is all from the outer banks, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. My great great grandmother's house on the beach got dragged out to sea in a big storm.

I grew up in New Jersey. I'm against slavery. I'd fight for the north, even though I have ancestors on both sides.

Like my great-great-grandfather and his brothers from Albany, I'd be signing up for the Union Army.

To do otherwise would be to approve and support human slavery and that would be a stain on the family honor.