I was too lazy to read the whole thread and I'm too lazy to do it now. My response is still the best. That's why you're part of the USA, not the CSA. I will admit you had the better generals. How you fucked up and didn't win early is a bit of a mystery, given some of the rubbish we had early on in for commanders.
Yankees like their spicy food. Northern Californians, now there is a Scoville challenged culinary people.
It's time to educate bonzie, MD. The really short answer is that the South wasn't in a war of conquest. The CSA just wanted to be left alone and fought a defensive-style battle. If they'd gone for DC early, they'd have gotten it and quite possibly ended the war in less than a year.
That's correct. The South wasn't out to overthrow the US gub'mint. They just wanted to go their separate way. They also didn't have the population that the North had. The North could throw away 5,000 men in a battle and replace them very quickly. When the South lost 5,000 men, there were few replacements. We should still take Washington City.
Well HELLO, I KNEW that it wasn't a Southern war of conquest. Their mistake was not realizing that the North meant business and that they weren't about to let the rogue states go their own way. If you're in a war, you need to fight to WIN, no matter if you're dragged into it reluctantly or not. If not, you're going to lose.
Well, duh. I told you that was the really short answer. Besides, if the South had been in a war of conquest and they won, then what? We really didn't want the North's territory and we didn't have the forces for a protracted occupation.
Here is a good way to annoy a Southerner....be a mick / guniea / papist Yankee with a black best friend who is there for every holiday bastard and marry one of their pure bred / Baptist / Church of God / princesses.
Put ketchup in your grits. I know someone who'd do such a thing, and I wouldn't eat breakfast at a decent Southern restaurant with her for all the money in the world.
Four things and four things only go in grits. Butter Salt Pepper Crumbled up pieces of bacon are optional. Anything else is an abomination before the Almighty and shall be punished sternly.
I'd just like to point out that anything other than desert that those four things don't go with is something that probably isn't worth eating in the first place.
