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time, the vaunted General Robert E Lee has been stopped in Gettysburg , PA. Maine Virginia
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Do you hear that, America
All men are equal…
as they lay silent and bloody, side by side on the hallowed ground of Gettyburg
and Vicksburg
At last, all men are equal. This is what I wanted, what my brother has been fighting for. What all my sacrifices have worked towards. All these years waiting for slaves to be treated as how they should be treated, as a person not property. As I am from the South I still want blacks to be equal, and I know how slaves feel. This country is destined for equality. I hope that eventually our country will be rejoined and reach the powerful potential that we can have.
ReplyDeleteSadly this victory at Gettysburg has not been all grand. This means for my family and my business that we have to relocate to another burg, even though we were told to stay in our town. This relocation is a huge burden on our business. Additionally my brother has died fighting for this war. I'm sure that in the future equality will help us greatly. Only thing I'm hoping for is equality for woman also, not just men.
Our Confederate world is crumbling like a hardtack cut in half. Now I feel like our work of capturing the Union General Edwin H. Stoughton was for nothing. Lincoln's speech was truly inspirational, but growing up with a secessionist merchant father and a Confederate perception of the world isn't going to just stop slavery. We were born into it. The slaves doing our hard labor like our own personal pet to do all of our work. Words may not solve this problem. We would just have to lick it into Lincoln's noggin that slavery is the Confederate's way.
ReplyDeleteIf I was alive today, I would be in shock of how brilliant and motivational President Abraham Lincoln's speech was. I know at the time that Lincoln was never a huge fan of me, but now I could never agree more. All men were created equal, no matter what their skin color, religion, or ideas were. The South should realize that this speech is almost like a new constitution. This will hopefully reunite the United States together. There must be wonderful times in the North right now. Even people in the callabooses must be excited. If the North and the South do someday get reunited, I think that President Abraham Lincoln will go down as not only one of the greatest presidents in United States history, but probably one of the greatest leaders. This must be one of the greatest Independence Days in history. So let the celebrations begin as Vicksburg becomes ours.
ReplyDeleteThe light is finally coming to wash away the gray skies. Hope is here, and the union is stronger than ever. I could have never imagined receiving this kind of recognition for my efforts on the battlefield. I have been given the title "Daughter of the 21st regiment," but my greatest satisfaction comes from the lives I have saved. Many a men have chastised my treatment of confederate soldiers along with those of the union. In my mind, all men are equal and all men are deserving of life, just as Lincoln has expressed in Gettysburg. I am proud of the stars and stripes as they continue to fight, even allowing black troops to fight along side. We are well on our way under Lincoln, abandon your rebellious ways you southerners!
ReplyDeleteThis is pitiful. Black men may have been created equal, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t equal to us. They have none of the brains in which we do, and also none of the skill on the battlefield. I almost pity them as that Union keep sending them into situation they won’t survive, and I’m sorry to have to keep gunning them down on top of forts and hills. Why should we listen to Lincoln’s dumb speech about slavery and the war? Stop trying to bring in the Declaration of Independence. That declared the states and the people should have more rights than their leaders, which the federal government did not obey, but I don’t think you ever mentioned that. His Emancipation Proclamation made no impact, even in the states under his control who use slaves.
ReplyDeleteAbout the war itself, we have gotten weak. After learning of the loss in Vicksburg, I cried a little. I can no longer stop the influx of troops invading from the North, as they can now surround us even from the South. There is no way I can scout three directions at the same time. I’m not even sure I’ll be allowed to scout, after the pitiful job I have recently done. At Gettysburg, I got tempted by 100, that is one hundred, supply wagons, and I took them whilst on a scouting mission. I left Lee’s army in the dark, and I couldn’t beat the devil back to camp, and he had to hastily prepare an army after learning General Meade was drawing near. However, our defense should hold a bit longer, and the Northerners will eventually give up hope.
All is not lost. Although we may have lost a couple battles at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, we can still win this war. We just haven't been going about this in the right way. What we need to do is instead of fighting this war pawn to pawn, we need to take out a few more important players. What we also shall do is make sure the Blue Buffoons do not destroy ours, for I have heard some rumors of an attempt at murdering Mr. Davis. We must increase our defense, and focus our offense, and leave the North broken and defeated. (And a good place to start is by removing Abraham Lincoln from the equation...)
ReplyDeleteDo not worry fellow southerners, everything will turn out as is should be. May God light our path, and may we move along it, towards our future. We will destroy the union, and they wont even know what hit them...
DeleteThis war has turned out worse than I thought. The Union has taken our most treasured stronghold, Vicksburg. With their powerful navy, they prevented us from transporting supplies on the Mississippi River. But with Vicksburg, they could not either. Now, this war is ending quickly, and I'm on the losing side. I has partially avenged my sons' death when they were suspected bushwhackers. We, the South, still have a chance. However, our farms and slaves will never be as effective as before. Civil wars are the worst of wars.
ReplyDeleteThrough the long years of slavery and segregation, white Southerners produced and absorbed cruel stereotypes about African Americans: that they were unclean and shiftless, unintelligent and useless. Blacks became either clowns or savages, with no area in between. Whites often defined themselves — their status, identities, daily lives, and self-worth — in relation to these concocted notions about African Americans. The shift in power has now become equal! Blacks are no longer 3/5 of a person! Of course southerners won't be happy, but what can they do? The south must listen, there shall be no objections to this rule. Blacks have earned their freedom, something that cannot be taken away from them.
ReplyDeleteI give a warm welcome to the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. They deserve to be treated equal to the white men. I am pleased to know that we are no longer to be considered 3/5 of a person. Whites do not understand what it feels like to be considered worthless and dirty. They don't understand the hardships blacks are forced go through on a daily basis. What if the whites were in our positions? What makes the whites so superior compared to us? How would they survive having to live the life of a person who is considered useless? This union victory at Gettysburg is one step closer to the abolition of slavery.
ReplyDeleteIt shall be a repeated practice to blind oneself from his fears, though the light will not mask the fetor of split skin and ruin. I fear this war, but I’ve chosen myself to acknowledge its passion. I’ve chosen myself to bathe in its reek. These fireworks which kindle the intermittent skies remind me only of my brave sons who rally amongst the Massachusetts 54th regiment. The colors, so rife and bold, will admonish any confederate weed of our reprisal. Our victories at the battle of Vicksburg and Gettysburg have claimed us countless benefits, such as the stronghold by the Mississippi. I hope to continue in this path, for Lincoln’s speech, the Gettysburg Address, has shown to have a prominent effect in the North. This nation, conceived in liberty, demands to be clothed in its old ways. Both the living and dead, who writhed to harvest, have hallowed it.
ReplyDelete“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here. It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
I wish to endow peace, but through that only comes suffering. I wish to avoid suffering, but from it blooms peace. The most pristine of things can be birthed from the devil. Our America must be glorified as not the nation that was bound around ignorance, but instead the nation that bled for its freedom. All men are created equally, as slavery will be abolished. The North Star has never shone brighter.
My head reels in shock with the news of our recent defeat. My assignment at the distant lands of Europe has long kept me away from my homeland, and my heart aches in reminiscence of my old friends and the beloved people of the Confederacy. However, I continue to do my duty with strength and vigour, determined to provide help to President Davis in any feasible fashion. As for the time being, I reside in London, planning to make my case in the courts of the French and British, imploring for the surely unparalleled support of our neighbor countries. Were we to encounter a misbegotten fate, President Davis is confident that their aid could make the difference between victory and defeat. I do all that is within the realm of my reality an ocean apart and wish the best of luck to our consecrated General Lee and hope that the seams tying the Confederates will hold strong.
ReplyDeleteAs I hear wind of President Lincoln’s ridiculous Gettysburg address, I cannot help but to find his dreams foolish. Uniting a country with such a wide rift is no more than a child’s helpless chimera. Davis is right- it is better to suffer the nightmare and live as two separate nations. It is for the good of the people- one may follow his/her heart and live a peaceable life with those that serve the same beliefs’. The confederates will not succumb to the Union’s desperate cry of hope. Instead, we will face the reality and endure the consequences, true to the “Americans” that Washington wished for us to be.
Even in my distant perch I can taste the bittersweet of this July fourth. The Union clutches at the fireworks with their bloodstained hands, blood still flowing ever freely even as they sing at the prospect of the unattainable. The confederates have learned to throw it away. We do not delve so deeply into hope. Let the fireworks open the eyes of the Union and show them the blood glistening redder than ever under the flickering sky. Let them feel the soaked ground, blood amassing more than ever under the weight of their sins. Let them know that a simple victory won’t dissipate all problems, that it is better to worsen and stabilize than to plunge downhill.
Finally, someone starts listening. What bosh. If you can let brave black men fight, surely you can give them the same rights as white men. Since the beginning of our nation, we have proclaimed that all men are equal. Yet, today we look down upon men of color as if they were savage beasts who need training. The South is all balled up. Blacks are people just as we are. If we can only consider ourselves equal when we lay dead on the field, I no longer have faith in our society. These young men are willing to fight for our country, to keep it as a whole, yet we can only think of them as lower beings. This is no way to treat people. Our country is falling apart. Lincoln’s sensational speech has been further assuring of that. We need men to fight the war. Each victorious battle brings the Union one step closer to winning. Why? Because the Union has young black men fighting. We have successfully chopped the Confederate snake into pieces. As we divide the South in our conquest for slavery, more men, both black and white, die on the field over the issue of slavery. Our men are put out of battle by a mere gunshot to the leg or arm. Our medicine isn't sufficient enough to heal these men. More men are being put out of service and we are only moving inches towards a victory. Who is really winning in this war? The men, cold as wagon tires or the men who are alive knowing that the next day could be their last?
ReplyDelete(Lincoln’s speech is grand. Although I did not hear it myself, it dreadfully angered Jefferson Davis. I have been undercover as a slave in the President of the Confederacy’s house for nearly a year and rarely has a piece of information made me so proud. I cleaned and fetched things for the Confederate President while he talked about the speech and plans for war. It’s rich that he still thinks I can’t understand him.)
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ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln says all men are equal, but this is bosh. As a matter of fact, the entire Gettysburg Address was completely ridiculous. It was a plea to the South to surrender, and if Lincoln thinks the Confederacy is going to give up that easily he's going to be in for a big surprise. Even though we may have lost the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, it does not mean we are goners. Two battles don't make a war, and the South is determined to win. Directly the tide will turn, and the Union will be throwing in the towel.
ReplyDelete( I agree with Lafayette Baker in that the war is nearing a crucial point, the beginning of the end for the South. With recent victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg the Union has cut the Confederacy in half. These victories have been aided by the fact that General Lee has been doing a shoddy job. As Lee ages he is losing his brilliant mind, and if the South relies on him for much longer they are going up the spout. I hope the South decides to throw in the sponge directly. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has hopefully convinced the South to surrender. Lincoln is right in that every man is equal, the African Americans fight just as hard as the whites, and deserve the same treatment. When will the South finally realize that we are all brothers and sisters, and that if the war does not stop all the soldiers will end up buried side by side, brothers in death.)
Davis's countenance expresses murder just a swipe of his glaze. Blacks need not describe the feeling of their dearest ties slit by the most irreparable evil, a void presenting it's self to one's despair. It is the existence of love that has been nulled by a whim of a slave owner and is not ever to be affixed to the black man. Why is this occurring in our nation where supposedly all members of our nation have equal freedom. Black men need not their words to be hushed; to be extinguished by the despotism of ignorant slave owners. All men are created equally. As a nation we must take a stand to negate bigotry, to fight for the ones who have done nothing wrong!
ReplyDeleteAs a Southerner, I can tell you, we are not giving up that easily. These negroes are negro for a reason. They are less than us! If we give them rights to land, we may as well do the same for dogs! The way you Northerners handle yourselves makes you just about as good as them. As good as dogs! The North may have split us in half, but we will come out on top! We will reunite! We will succeed!
ReplyDelete(One of these thoughtless nights, everyone will know. Everyone will know that all men are created equal. All Americans will be equal, happy. This wretched war full of loss will be over. One of these days...)
Today is the turning point of this war. What was before an assured Southern victory is now a Northern success. The battle of Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg have lifted our soldier's spirits, spurring them on to finish this once and for all. Abraham Lincoln has signed the Emancipation Proclamation, further strengthening our cause, and I am elated to see this proclamation in action. Though it will only free slaves in confederate states, it serves as an effective punishment to the Southern traitors who believe that secession is justifiable. The harsh contrast and mockery the Emancipation Proclamation creates is augmented by the irony that the Confederates, who are fighting tooth and nail for their rights, lost their slaves but the border states kept theirs. Although the battle of Antietam was costly, we have won three major battles in a row. The siege of Vicksburg has been a pivotal step in our battle plan. By besieging Vicksburg we have essentially gained control of the Mississippi river; consequently, the Confederation has been divided in two.
ReplyDeleteThe Southerner's ego tells a different story. Their soldier's uniforms are in tatters, their economy is failing, and the Southerner's spirits should be at the bottom of a gully of hopelessness. They should be mourning and anguished over their losses, crushed beyond repair. But instead they are resilient, true to their reputation, and fight back proudly. Their spirit seems to be irrepressible, something that all Northerners should admire, victory or not. But to us, regarding to the terms of warfare, it is of no matter how resilient their dreams are, for the Anaconda plan is effectively crushing the South.
Happy birthday America! These victories are what we need to win this war. While war may sometimes be the best option, killing other people is not something we enjoy. After all, the Southerners are technically our own people. Throwing in the sponge will be the most reasonable option for the Confederates. No doubt I shall vote for Lincoln. He has made many ace-high decisions, and allowing all men to be equal is not exception. This gives negroes a better a better reason to fight for us. Soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th regiment will fight more bravely than they already have.
ReplyDeleteWorking on the front lines as a field surgeon, I see firsthand the damage this war is doing to the people of our country. I see dying people lying everywhere, confederate and union, and I cannot help but assist both. Enemy or friend, all the wounded are equal people that need care. President Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg reminded us all of the constitution that founded our country, and how slavery tore it apart. I hope that we win the war and restore the constitution and the belief that all people, no matter the sex or race, are created equal. I am glad of the emancipation proclamation, for now it is official: The north is fighting to free the slaves!
ReplyDeleteI too, as a nurse in the Union army, sympathize with you. Although I cannot help the Confederate soldiers, being a nurse in the Union, I see the full effects of this war. If people can only consider themselves equal when they are lying wounded on the ground, then we have no right to be a country. What bosh! We declared when we became a country that all men are equal, we are only breaking that now. We, the North are fighting for the slaves, their rights and equality!
DeleteLook at who's the curly wolf now! The north has finally token it's rightful place. All men are created equal he says, and his word is truly right. As I said before, it seems like some bloodshed was all we needed to finally get the South to change. The South seems offish after this battle, remember the men who have died for this day to come. Remember the hearts of all those slaves who have been painfully living their days throughout this horror. It is time to lay down the hoe and take your gun, this day is a step forward. The North is winning, my spy days might be over soon for this war. Can the South now see clearly?
ReplyDeleteThis may seem as a dark time for the confederacy, but we will turn the tide back on our side. Again, I must tell our inattentive brothers in the North that the negroes aren't men, they're property. Yes, of course I agree that all men are equal, especially those oppressed by the Federal government of the Union. Throughout our few years of existence as a government, I have used little of my power, in contrast with the Union. In fact, much of the power I started this war with has gone to my trusted comrade, Robert E. Lee. Those men still in Dixie, know that your country needs you. In this war, you may lose your life; but if you stay at your farms, you lose your ideals.
ReplyDeleteIf all men are equal then what are we doing? We are not all fools, no one is equal to each other, everyone has different standards, it would take a miracle to get anything accomplished in our place of pure chaos. For now, we shall stick to what we know, the Confederacy has taken a lead of what is and has been theirs for the longest time now. Because I followed in the footsteps of many different people who have roles in the Civil War and just because I started at such a young age does not mean I do not have a say. I believe what Lincoln is saying, just not to his full extent. Men and women should be equal, but as for the Negroes, we will just have to see. I do not think that the South is ready just yet to give up, we've still got some fight in us. While President Lincoln's words may be moving some people to support the Union, I know that the Southerners will stick to their morals and honor the way of life that generations have set up for us. The Union will not get in our way.
ReplyDeleteAt last! Our great leader President Lincoln had finally ended the terrible practice of what we have come to know as slavery. No longer will the black man suffer, and no longer will he be thought of as lesser than a white man. America is known as the Land of the Free. It's about time we start living up to the name and it's about itme we stop living a life full of hypocrisy. No longer will the black men and women have to live in fear of someday being captured like animals and tortured till their deaths for leaving and white man's sight. No longer will a black man be a slave!
ReplyDeleteThe turning point in the war!?! I am ecstatic about the win in Gettysburg but I don't think it was worth the bloodshed. Both sides lost more men than ever before, the survivors don't look the same and they all look a bit traumatized by the whole thing. I'm not sure they will (mentally) recover from it. Seeing your friends die next to you can be a thing that can scar you for life. I'm not sure if this win was worth it after all.
ReplyDeleteHow can we celebrate when we are clearly in a complicated situation? This is absolutely ironic, wouldn’t you agree? There are blacks, still, living in captivity and not ever able to hear the resonant sounds of liberty. This war is not over. But there is nothing to hide. The Union has the upper hand now, and the Confederacy has been divided and is unable to access the Mississippi River. Just like President Lincoln addressed at Gettysburg, we are all created equal. This statement does not correlate with the color of one’s skin.
ReplyDeleteHow can we celebrate when we are clearly in a complicated situation? This is absolutely ironic, wouldn’t you agree? There are blacks, still, living in captivity and not ever able to hear the resonant sounds of liberty. This war is not over. But there is nothing to hide. The Union has the upper hand now, and the Confederacy has been divided and is unable to access the Mississippi River. Just like President Lincoln addressed at Gettysburg, we are all created equal. This statement does not correlate with the color of one’s skin.
ReplyDeleteAll men are equal. Dead or alive. Whether or not the south will listen is indeed the question. Taking Gettysburg represents a great victory for the union, but I feel that there is certainly more blood to come. I continue to hope that Robert E. Lee will surrender, and if he doesn't by choice, it may be necessary to persuade his surrender. By force.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that all men are created equal. But that aside, these colored-folk are not even considered people on our side. The North might have the upper-hand currently, with there battle victories and 3/5's of an army, but I have faith in the Confederate cause.
ReplyDelete(I am overjoyed to hear that our work is paying off. And though many have died, they sacrificed their lives in order to win this war. I have mixed emotions, due to the loss of many valued lives, but I am also overwhelmed with a sense of pride for the Union. Slavery will finally be abolished, once and for all. All men ARE created equal.)
Daddy always said that "negros" aren't even real people, but that they come with the land and they are born to wirk in the fields. Daddy, though, is still gone and mother and I are finally seeing light again after days on end of being stuck in the cellar. The battle has moved on. My little sister is too young to know what is going on, but what an awful way to enter the world. I hope daddy comes home soon from wherever he is. I miss him and I know mother does too.
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