Cold Mountain - The Crater - Siege of Petersburg - Part 1 [18+]

reading into history led humanity down a path where millions were slaughtered under marxists. the marxist intellectuals thought history was only about class war and the society they wanted was possible. Their idiocy was the very reason for reactionary nationalism (NS), bc the marxists are/were destorying natural communities, faiths, traditions and everything else they saw in the way of "paradise".

Also the Middle East disaster comes from trying to justify the present by looking to the past.

We can learn from it, but I think its more dangerous that history is a tool wise politicals abuse in order to herd the sheep.

Assessments from the reality of the present should mean more than references to "lessons" of "appeasement", russian expansion (czar/cccp behavior doesnt affect present), past mistreatment in order to gain an advantage today...

theres so much to learn from our history your insane, its very important. You have a very narrow minded view in this in my opinion.

Knowledge is power and history contains quite a wealth of this. The act of both recording and researching it are defenitly important.

your a fool have you never heard of if you dont learn from history's mistakes your doomed to repeat them?

also true :)

You're right about the CW directing us toward federalism. But the South was controlled by a small number of monied elite, too (the planter aristocracy). The southern aristocracy (slave owners) led the people to secession and war through their control, in order to protect slavery and their wealth. The CSA, if they'd won, would probably have adopted a federal system sooner or later. Davis was constantly trying to increase the power of the CSA's central government. He had to in order to win the war

The outcome of the C War set the course towards federalism, which accelerated as time passed on. You are right about Wilson.

It is anyone's guess how the CSA would have turned out, but it was anti-federalist in theory and a reflection of the people - religiously and otherwise - rather than an amorphous blob controlled by a distant body of caballistic, monied elites in Washington. America became strong bc of federalism and firm-backed money power; ironically it seems it will also die bc of it...

I'm trying to find my copy of this book LOL! But for sources, he uses the official records of the war from both US and CS, Sherman's writings and papers, countless diaries from Sherman's soldiers and Confederate soldiers, pretty much every relevant primary source that's available. I think it's still in print; I'll have to check Amazon.
P.S. I wish I was as fluent in German as you are in English!

As a profession, history probably is dead LOL! It's not lucrative, anyway! The Civil War does have relevance for the world we live in today, however. It shows that a centralized government is necessary for survival, as opposed to a loose confederation of states. Germany's and America's history show this too. But that doesn't mean that dictatorships are the answer either. A balance must be achieved between Federal and state power to create a "good" government, if indeed there is such a thing!

thanks.

What sources does Marszelak use?

Whether there would be war or not in this case was pretty much up to Jefferson Davis. You are exactly right about the decline of our government's adherence to the Constitution. And I don't support our current foreign policy, if that's what you're hinting at. But I don't see how Union victory in the Civil War caused this. I think the current tyrannical Federal government has more to do with Woodrow Wilson's introduction of the income tax, which gave the government unlimited access to our money.

History is dead. I love it too, but it is dead. It took me years to realize this.

In response to everything you have written, I ask you what I was often asked: what does it mean for the world we live in today? How does it affect tomorrow?

If you are a professor or something, all the power to you.

But honestly, while history is in fact quite dead, the reality of the world is changing all around us - someone who buries their head in history texts is about the last thing we need right now.

I'd recommend John Marszelak's book on Sherman for a good history of the March to the Sea. It tells both the good and the bad things that the Federals did, and thus gives an accurate look at the nature of this march. Truth be told, there were few murders during this march--the southerners mostly fled before Sherman, so his troops usually destroyed barns and crops without a southerner in sight. Houses weren't typically burned, but were often picked clean.

You have your point there, but I find it MORE interesting that this Constitution-mandidated need to preserve the territorial integrity of the Union, here observed even at the cost of war, was interpreted so rigidly then but is now peanuts.

Everything that has happened since the last century has paved the way for the future dissolution of the Union, the destruction of American ideals and heritage and allowed a tyrannous government to emerge.

yeah, two armies going head-to-head. that is a little different than running on a rampage through the south killing men and women and destroying everything they own.

typical ami-scheiß, break everything down with your one-sided morality.

you can rationalize anything so it sounds nice. If you're Christian, you should know thats the devil's speciality. If you're not, you should realize that this anyway, it is obvious.