Hmmmm . . . Doesn't say they were armed and fighting.

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Post #347,331 by Andrew Grygus 9/4/11 2:34:16 PM Reply	Hmmmm . . . Doesn't say they were armed and fighting. Says "Those boys stayed with me, drove my teams". Driving teams isn't fighting on the front lines, and the fact so many survived this horribly deadly conflict indicates they were back in the logistics chain - in other words, still slaves doing slave work. This is purely self-serving spin.
Post #347,333 by boxley 9/4/11 2:44:05 PM Reply	so the 90 guys in iraq that support the 10 combat troops arnt really soldiering? We can save a lot of money on combat pay if that is the case. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #347,337 by drook 9/4/11 3:47:40 PM Reply	Yeah, they're already doing that Or had you not heard about all the contractors we're paying? -- Drew
Post #347,344 by boxley 9/4/11 6:01:31 PM Reply	we are saving money doing that? What was the working title of the young lady who was captured and raped early in the war, wagon driver or teamster wasnt it? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #347,350 by drook 9/4/11 7:25:31 PM Reply	What's the question? Is the important part of your post the "aren't really soldiering" part or the "save money on combat pay" part? I thought it was the soldiering part. -- Drew
Post #347,354 by boxley 9/4/11 9:31:02 PM Reply	pick one, I dont care Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep

TNC: Black Confederates at Harvard - (Another Scott) - (56) - Sept. 2, 2011, 11:40:34 AM EDT

discuss away - (boxley) - (50) - Sept. 3, 2011, 02:41:08 PM EDT

exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis -NT - (Another Scott) - (48) - Sept. 3, 2011, 03:18:41 PM EDT

corner cases do apply - (boxley) - (47) - Sept. 3, 2011, 03:57:44 PM EDT

Read it again. - (Another Scott) - (46) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:17:42 PM EDT

I read it just fine - (boxley) - (45) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:25:41 PM EDT

You think there were 3,000 - 10,000 black fifes in the CSA? -NT - (Another Scott) - (44) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:32:04 PM EDT

dunno, lets take a look - (boxley) - (43) - Sept. 3, 2011, 04:53:03 PM EDT

You might want to find another source. - (Another Scott) - (5) - Sept. 3, 2011, 05:14:31 PM EDT

So the report by Lewis H Steiner. - (boxley) - (4) - Sept. 3, 2011, 05:25:56 PM EDT

Occam's Razor. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 3, 2011, 05:44:31 PM EDT

Ahh, the laugh test - (crazy) - Sept. 3, 2011, 06:35:58 PM EDT

FFS are you claiming that the description - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 3, 2011, 08:46:27 PM EDT

Ok... - (Another Scott) - Sept. 3, 2011, 09:09:18 PM EDT

Another rebuttal you might like. - (Another Scott) - (36) - Sept. 3, 2011, 06:53:06 PM EDT

I will quote General Bedford Forrest in rebuttal - (boxley) - (35) - Sept. 3, 2011, 08:50:10 PM EDT

Hold on a second - (drook) - (17) - Sept. 3, 2011, 09:07:19 PM EDT

it was a war to steal the wealth of the south - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:24:28 PM EDT

Really? - the wealth of the South . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:26:02 PM EDT

It wasn't - (SpiceWare) - (14) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:00:27 PM EDT

And why were the confederate states trying to secede? -NT - (drook) - (13) - Sept. 4, 2011, 07:20:53 PM EDT

why was the union stealing slaves then selling therm? - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:32:40 PM EDT

I don't deny that slavery was a factor - (SpiceWare) - Sept. 7, 2011, 12:04:00 AM EDT

Their Constitutional Rights were being violated by the North - (mmoffitt) - (10) - Sept. 7, 2011, 08:36:34 AM EDT

A neat, bound copy for $5 ppd?! Order 300M of the suckers. -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 7, 2011, 06:53:47 PM EDT

They lost the argument. Thankfully. -NT - (Another Scott) - (8) - Sept. 7, 2011, 08:06:16 PM EDT

What argument? - (mmoffitt) - (7) - Sept. 8, 2011, 11:00:45 AM EDT

If it's so clear cut, what was Dred Scott about? - (Another Scott) - (6) - Sept. 8, 2011, 01:02:13 PM EDT

Huh? - (mmoffitt) - (5) - Sept. 8, 2011, 03:10:30 PM EDT

doffs cap in your direction -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 8, 2011, 04:47:01 PM EDT

We live in alternate universes apparently. :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 8, 2011, 06:13:05 PM EDT

Have you been reading "Disunion" in the NYTimes? - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 9, 2011, 09:10:30 PM EDT

So, because he didn't do it until a year later, ... - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Sept. 12, 2011, 09:09:08 AM EDT

dubya actually used lincum as precedent in his argument -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 12, 2011, 09:06:29 AM EDT

Yeah, Forrest was a great man. - (Another Scott) - (10) - Sept. 3, 2011, 09:20:40 PM EDT

you mentioned lots of reporters in the war eh? - (boxley) - (9) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:41:08 PM EDT

You're dancing around the issue. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2011, 03:41:35 PM EDT

hey thanx! you just admitted 1500 black csa troops - (boxley) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:09:08 PM EDT

Read it again. They didn't fight. -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:58:52 PM EDT

never said they did, I said they served -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:16:02 PM EDT

You didn't answer my question. Did you miss it? - (Another Scott) - (4) - Sept. 4, 2011, 03:48:39 PM EDT

sorry, I went back thru your links - (boxley) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:11:20 PM EDT

One last time, then I'm done. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2011, 07:28:42 PM EDT

One last time myself - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:30:23 PM EDT

Or as Shelby noted... - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 7, 2011, 08:48:31 AM EDT

Hmmmm . . . Doesn't say they were armed and fighting. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:34:16 PM EDT

so the 90 guys in iraq that support the 10 combat troops - (boxley) - (4) - Sept. 4, 2011, 02:44:05 PM EDT

Yeah, they're already doing that - (drook) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2011, 03:47:40 PM EDT

we are saving money doing that? - (boxley) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2011, 06:01:31 PM EDT

What's the question? - (drook) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2011, 07:25:31 PM EDT

pick one, I dont care -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 4, 2011, 09:31:02 PM EDT

(Dup.) -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 3, 2011, 03:20:30 PM EDT

For those interested - TNC has a follow-up - (Another Scott) - Sept. 5, 2011, 02:22:37 PM EDT

Jourdon Anderson writes his old boss. - (Another Scott) - (3) - May 28, 2012, 07:00:12 PM EDT

now I wonder if our lincoln would write a similar letter - (boxley) - (1) - May 28, 2012, 09:52:18 PM EDT

not a chance - (lincoln) - May 29, 2012, 09:24:30 AM EDT

Just plain Masterful.. - (Ashton) - May 28, 2012, 10:58:11 PM EDT

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