A somber note to end the year.
Still, a violent reprisal to unruly settlers in a colonial nation which the natives must have known was riding high on a recent victory would only ever have one response.
Likely they'd stay pretty quiet considering both their own past and what they plan to do with their own indigenous population.I wonder if it’s a possibility that some of the Native Canadians might become a fifth column for the United States?
I wonder how a angry United States will react to the Métis, maybe they will see it as a way to knock Great Britain from their self righteous high horse and will recognize them as a independent country, even though the Métis will probably lose, it would allow the Americans to paint the British and Canadians as hypocrites. After all this wars aren’t just being waged with guns and cannons, it’s being waged with words, arguments, philosophy and Public Opinion……..
I wonder if it’s a possibility that some of the Native Canadians might become a fifth column for the United States?
I wonder how a angry United States will react to the Métis, maybe they will see it as a way to knock Great Britain from their self righteous high horse and will recognize them as a independent country, even though the Métis will probably lose, it would allow the Americans to paint the British and Canadians as hypocrites. After all this wars aren’t just being waged with guns and cannons, it’s being waged with words, arguments, philosophy and Public Opinion……..
May the Confederacy forever ache and burn from the rebellion of the enslaved, that their greed of wanting to keep men in chains results in a internal war they can never win and will steadily erode them from within.
It'd only be fitting if a Bleeding Hearts' Party forms around the disgruntled planters who lose slaves to the lure of Northern freedom.While I can't guarantee an immediate bleeding ulcer (there huge swathes of slaves in the Deep South and other places who barely know much has changed, while few outside Tennessee, Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina and Arkansas know about the Emancipation Proclamation) the events of 1866 will, as I think I've hinted, leave a lasting impact.
The Confederacy will find its own bleeding ulcer on the issue in the future. Don't you worry...
extremely common USCT WRows of black soldiers are storming the position. Their objective? A plantation just beyond the lines.
extremely common USCT W
I also love that you bring this up
lots of timeliness ignore the armed and well trained people with an existing under the ground network who had every reason to keep the war going even on there own
It'd only be fitting if a Bleeding Hearts' Party forms around the disgruntled planters who lose slaves to the lure of Northern freedom.
Unfortunately for the USCT boys, these actions are only going to reinforce and harden the opinions of McClellan and the other Democrats. I definitely see McClellan using these mutinies as an "I-Told-You-So" moment, I expect this will be one step forward, two steps backwards for the foreseeable future (with the exception of Abolitionist strongholds like New England)
This, especially those in the New England area and Freedman communities in the North who now will not only be smuggling people out of the south but also guns and such into the hands of guerrillas/Oh the Democrats are going to jump on that, and be very much "I told you so" and portray them as villains. To many though, they will be heroes.
This, especially those in the New England area and Freedman communities in the North who now will not only be smuggling people out of the south but also guns and such into the hands of guerrillas/
The Deep South must be happy indeed at how things ultimately turned-out, aside from coastal raiding in South Carolina and Grant's turning-movement against Corinth, both of which must have produced vast "refugeeing" among blacks and Yankee speculation. Methinks businessmen at Virginia and Nashville will be quite discontent in the future regarding "lost opportunities" and what-have-you.
Unless the democrats respond to this by totally dissolving all units of 'colored' troops and actively helping the confederacy in stopping these raids, which in and of itself can cause a much larger mutiny among those soldiers who see it as the government stabbing the army in the back, this raiding will continue for decades to come. It might well create the flashpoint of the next US-confederate war.