Friday, March 28, 2014

Quote of the Day


The day you make a soldier of them is the beginning of the end of the Revolution  And if slaves seem good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. ~ BGen Howell Cobb, CSA

2 comments:

  1. Actually, I was quite surprised to learn that a statistically-significant number of blacks DID fight for the Confederacy . . . better the devil you know than the one you don't, maybe?

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  2. It's a puzzling phenomenon -- kind of like gay Republicans.

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