Saturday, July 7, 2018
Friday, July 6, 2018
Vanity Fair
Anonymous Wall Street Banker Resents Trump's Successes
Believes Hillary Was Right - Trump's Supporters are "Deplorables'
Pat Buchanan, the man who presaged Trumpism,
The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back
The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and John McCain, is history.
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
On this day in 1863, a day after the Union win at Gettysburg,
CONFEDERATES SURRENDER VICKSBURG
On this day in 1863, the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg after a long siege by Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The Union's victory at Vicksburg was the biggest of the western campaign and allowed the Union to control the Mississippi, effectively split the Confederacy, and disrupt the Confederacy’s supply lines. The Union’s win at Vicksburg, combined with the Union’s victory at Gettysburg the day before, rendered a double body blow of the first order to the Confederate cause. Legend has it that the people of Vicksburg did not celebrate July 4th again until 1944 during WWII.
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
On this day in 1863,
UNION WINS BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
PICKETT’S DESPERATE CHARGE ON FINAL DAY RESULTS IN 7,000 CONFEDERATE DEAD OR WOUNDED IN LESS THAN AN HOUR
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| George Pickett |
In what turned out to be the turning point of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia’s invasion of the North was stopped at Gettysburg by Union forces led by recently-appointed General George Meade.
After two days of fighting, the Union and Confederate forces had suffered an incredible 35,000 fatalities. Lee tried to gain the initiative on the third day with a massive bombardment of Union positions. The Union responded with its own bombardment, reported to be the heaviest of the Civil War.
Mistakenly believing the Confederates’ artillery had softened up the Union lines, Lee ignored the advice of his subordinates and ordered General George Pickett and others to send 15,000 soldiers into what turned out to be a one mile long killing field to take the appropriately-named Cemetery Ridge. Pickett’s troops were mowed down one after another like sitting ducks and Pickett never forgave Lee for the slaughter of his men.
Realizing Gettysburg was unwinnable, Lee reluctantly withdrew his army. Meade’s Army of the Potomac was too battered to pursue and destroy the vulnerable Confederates as they retreated, but Lee never again attempted to invade the North and spent the rest of the war trying to fend off Union forces as they moved through the South to their ultimate victory.
The Battle of Gettysburg was an unplanned battle - The Confederate forces were in Gettysburg only to find shoes for its infantrymen.
The Battle of Gettysburg was an unplanned battle - The Confederate forces were in Gettysburg only to find shoes for its infantrymen.
Monday, July 2, 2018
On this day in 1822,
Slave Revolt Leader Denmark Vesey Executed
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| Denmark Vesey Memorial Charleston, S.C. |
On this day in 1964
LBJ SIGNS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
On this day in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House, the most sweeping civil rights legislation passed by Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public places such as schools, buses, parks and swimming pools. The bill also led the way for a number of other pieces of civil rights legislation – including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which set strict rules for protecting the right of African Americans to vote – that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minorities.
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