Rocket propelled stakes.
Clearly Harry Turtledove needs to write another book. When time traveling South African white supremacists begin supplying automatic rifles to the Confederacy, they find themselves countered by radical black nationalist time travelers who begin supplying cruise missile technology to the Union. It’s Drones of the North.
:smack:
There you go - the inevitable Lincoln-drone-vampire movie sequel.
Most people would say that the South seizing federal installations and firing on/capturing a U.S. fort constituted casus belli.
If Ron Paul had been President at that time, we’d probably still have two separate countries (North and South) abiding peacefully under Libertariatopia. :dubious:
He didn’t invade the South.
The South was part of the United States.
It just happened to be ruled by a bunch of ignorant white supremacists who were terrified of having their slaves taken from them.
And I actually DO have a problem with the Confederate Flag…it’s the ensign of a treasonous organization, the CSA. I really wish we’d treat the damn thing like Germany does the flag of the Third Reich.
Minor nitpick. It’s actually not the flag of the CSA, but the battle flag of, IIRC, the army of Northern Virginia. The Southern nationalists who get all warm and fuzzy when they see it know so little of their own history they don’t even realize its not the Confederate Flag.
The only device in the 1860’s that compares to drones is the reconnaissance
balloon. I believe these aerial craft carried battery powered telegraph keys
for communicating enemy troop movements and logistics. Dunno if they were
propelled by hot air or lighter gases. I have not seen any pubs about the Union
Signal Corps.
They used hydrogen. Hot air is not reliable if you want to hang over the front for a few hours.
Beats Farragut using his whole fleet as minesweepers at Mobile Bay. :eek:
Trivia note: George Custer was one of the officers who went up on balloon missions to recon enemy forces.
The Confederate flag as rendered on the state flag of Mississippi, and formerly on the state flag of Georgia, is the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was square, and was subsequently used by other, but not all Confederate armies.
The Confederate flag in common usage today is simply this flag rendered as a rectangle, with the same proportions as the U.S. flag.
In neither case is it meant to represent the government of the CSA.
Uh, what? I’ve talked to lots of people who explicitly intend it to represent the government of the CSA.
The government of the CSA, as opposed to the South itself, or rebellion in general? If you say so. That’s not been my experience, however.
Your premise is false. Lincoln still has a lot to answer for about the War of Northern Aggression.
Oh, ferchrissake, you’re not one of them, are you. Please tell me this was a whoosh.
This “War of Northern Aggression” thing is revisionist poppycock. Ya’ll shot first, making the South the aggressor. While I believe the Northern states should have let the South go and become the third-world cesspool its leaders had their hearts set on, they did kick a much bigger dog and so got what was coming them.
What a silly ass idea. What color is your sky?
The USA troops were on CSA land.
The slavers were not traitors.
That first amendment stuff is pretty nasty, isn’t it.
The war wasn’t about slavery-it was about secession and Lincoln extending/insuring Federal rule, and the supremacy of the USA constitution.
The revisionism is on your part, my friend. The South had seceded. The North invaded to resupply Fort Sumter, and the South fired. The first shot was fired by the South, true, but in response to an invasion from the North’s supply boats.
You’d say wrong, then. The enemies of the Late Unpleasantness are dead, so, it is impossible to give aid and comfort to them.
Well, considering they were traitors in the first place who were determined to continue OWNING OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, I hardly feel particularly sorry for them. Wish we’d executed every general and Confederate government official instead of coddling them, though.