Message from @Billy Ray Jenkins
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they held the Yankees too just more subtle
and backdoor like
Jefferson Davis was such a good man he didn't realize that he was being Cucked
he couldnt comprehend that type of skullduggery
because he couldnt comprehend the Jewish nature
as much as I HATE kikes..I give em credit...they a smart devious lot
Stonewall Jackson gave Jefferson Davis a plan for victory in 1861
which involved invading the North burning everything in sight
and forcing surrender
ala Sherman
of course they vetoed it
but the army of VA did invade???
supposedly Stonewall HATED Judah P Benjamin
no this was supposed to be a burn everything in sight live off the land march to lake erie
Lee wouldnt do it, he refused to make war on civilians
but this was before Lee had been appointed
yeah he was too much of a gentlemen...ok gotcha
this was under Johnston I believe in 61
The reason was because Lee didn't go to school under Mahan
Mahan was at West Point only a year before he left and went to Europe
Lee Graduated under the old system
both Stonewall and Sherman studied under Mahan
and adopted the modern technique
Actually Total War wasnt Modern at all, it was merely a return to Pre-Christian Warfare. Since Augustine, battle had been fought according to rules
except when fighting infidels when 2 Christian peoples fought they had to fight for proper reasons and conduct the battle in such a way not to be brutal
@MatthewHeimbach Have you studied any on that?
Being in the Orthodox Communion im sure you studied a bit on that
Augustines philosophy about war
Aye, Just War Doctrine
I knew it
you knew what I was getitng at
The War For Southern Independence was truly in my mind the last war that began under Just War Theory and ended in modern war
I read Lee's memoirs and although it never mentions it in there, im about 99% sure he ascribed to just war theory
Jackson did not
@katherine would love this conversation, she took a class that revolved around the civil war, and how basically the south dindu nuffin
Stonewall was a Presbyterian Calvinist not too different from the Yankee Puritans in their belief on Dominion and destruction
Calvinists believed the Elect could deal with the sinners any way they wanted basically
"the south will rise again" started because lincoln basically said fuck them, let them rebuild by themselves, leaving the women to clean the battle fields of decaying bodies and such
Stonewall boiled his war belief down in that basic way, he saw the South as the Elect of God and the North as Sinners who needed to be destroyed