April 4, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
I love forgotten to look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land.
In Dixie's land, where I was born in early on one frosty morning, look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land.
And I wish I was in Dixie.
Hooray, hooray.
In Dixie's land, I'll take my stand.
And living by Dixie, away, away, away outside the Dixie.
All right, everybody.
Welcome again to Confederate History Month 2020.
We gave the opening salvo at the top of the show, but now we are officially in it and it has begun and it will continue until the month of May.
Two hours every week on this show during the month of April.
It is Confederate History Month.
And we didn't just make that up, by the way.
Confederate History Month has been an officially state-designated occurrence or a holiday, if you will, because the war officially began with the firing on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, and quite tragically for the world, ended at Appomattox in April of 1865.
So that was the beginning and the end of the war in the month of April, four years nearly to the day.
I think it was within three days, the firing of Fort Sumter in April of 61 and Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Anyway, Keith, that is why April is Confederate History Month.
And for 16 years, we have honored it and we will continue to honor it.
And it's a big thing.
We both have Confederate ancestry, as does so many of the staff and crew here at TPC.
And it's something we wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
What a glorious heritage and patrimony.
Coming up, our first guest to kick off Confederate History Month is Paul Angel of the Barnes Review.
Now, the Barnes Review is a historical journal that seeks to put history into accord with the facts.
And that includes Southern history.
So we've got a lot to talk with Paul about.
But Keith, why don't you fire the opening shots this Confederate History Month?
Which way should we go?
How do you want to begin?
Well, you know, like William Faulkner said, history isn't over.
It isn't even past.
We're still fighting the Civil War today.
The left has decided that the Civil War, which is iconic to white Southerners who are there next to Nazis, the group they most love to hate,
they've decided to make an issue out of statues and remembrances and veneration of the Confederate past and do their best to wipe it out and to get liberal constituencies like the black population revved up about it.
Now, why am I bringing this up?
Well, I went to Ole Miss for law school.
Ole Miss was the avatar, the exemplar of all things Confederate when I was growing up.
And as you probably noticed, Keith, pardon the interruption, but a great article at Amran.com about the legacy of Ole Miss, beginning with its incredible legacy with the University Grays going through current, more unfortunate years.
Well, what does that have to do with current events?
Well, let me tell you what it has to do with current events.
I was a graduate of Ole Miss Law School that attended Ole Miss football and basketball games religiously back in the 80s, 90s, early 2000s.
During that time, there was no greater opponent of all things Confederate than Tommy Tuberville, who was a carpetbagger basically who came through town to coach the football team for several years.
He couldn't quite get things up to par and he decided to use as an excuse for his lack of achievement the Confederate symbols at the school.
He was an enemy of all things Confederate.
He was responsible for the band no longer playing Dixie, for the student body to be prohibited from bringing Confederate flags into the stadium and waving them, which was a great tradition.
They used to have the band dressed up in Confederate uniforms.
They used to unfurl a great Confederate flag.
And the cheerleaders would run out with it.
Yeah, and they would have a Kappa Delta every year who played a real Colonel Rebel in a Confederate uniform.
He'd be on a white steed and he would lead the team onto the football field back in the day.
Of course, all of that had to go to please Tommy Tuberville.
Well, Tommy Tuberville, I've been waiting for an opportunity to get back at that SOB all these years.
And now there is an opportunity because Tommy Tuberville is running against a true son of the South, Jeff Sessions, for senator from the university, from the state of Alabama.
And Donald Trump, who doesn't seem to be able to distinguish friends from foes often, has decided that he's going to come out in favor of Tuberville and has done that when Sessions was the one first person in Congress, either House, House of Representatives or Senate, to declare his support for Trump back in 2015.
Two, he served honorably as a senator for many years from Alabama.
He was a U.S. Attorney General from Alabama for a while, not the, and he was later under Trump, the actual Attorney General, not just for the Southern District of Alabama, which he was before, but for the whole United States.
And according to Numbers USA, which is the chief lobbying group for immigration matters and limiting immigration, they said that Jeff Sessions during his period of time at the U.S. Senate had the highest rating of any member of Congress, either the House of Representatives or Senate, on immigration issues.
And he is a true populist and a nationalist.
And Trump, following his Jewish advisors up in D.C. and in the swamp in the Acela corridor, and in particular, I'm sure that boneheaded son-in-law of his, Jared Kushner has come.
He's a true Renaissance man, Keith.
He is Trump's czar on the coronavirus, Trump's czar on Middle Eastern peace.
I mean, this guy could do it all.
Yeah, he is baby girl's husband, and, you know, he is now the chief advisor to Trump.
And I'm sure he has something to do with this anti-Sessions thing, too.
Well, it's time for us to declare our independence from the Yankee Trump in this regard.
The guy that would be best for Trump and for Trump's agenda as it was announced to the American people in his campaign in 2016 would be Jeff Sessions.
Get out there, Peter.
Jeff Sessions.
Hey, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is his name.
You want to talk about a Confederate-sounding guy?
He is totally Confederate.
He is one of us.
And let me tell you, he would be great to have back in the U.S. Senate.
He would hold Trump's feet to the fire on the positions that he took and hasn't followed through on the positions that he ran on back in 2016.
It would be wonderful to have him back in there.
And let me tell you, Trump doesn't know his friends from his foes.
If Sessions got in there, he'd be the best friend that Trump would have.
But Trump keeps listening to people that are intent upon undermining him.
Boy, we're just getting started, ladies and gentlemen.
When we come back to Jeff Sessions, when we come back, Paul Angel of the Barnes Review, and we're going to talk about Chancellorsville.
We're going to talk about the Battle of the Wilderness.
Did you know about that one?
That's new content for TPC.
We'll be back.
Stay tuned.
I'd advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
The press has created a rigged system.
They even want to try and rig the election.
Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.
And poisoned the mind of so many of our voters.
At the polling booth, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
And then they say, oh, there's no voter fraud in our country.
I come from Chicago.
So I want to be honest.
It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past.
Sometimes Democrats have to.
You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.
There's no voter fraud.
You start whining before the game's even over.
Whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
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This is your wife in suburbia.
Oh, hi, Henry.
Well, he doesn't exactly respond to requests yet, but um.
Well, I know how frustrating that can be.
You do.
I'm still waiting for my romantic lunch date.
Oh, yeah.
David.
Well, I must not have enough memory allocated.
Uh-huh.
Sorry.
You know, your son said mama today.
Really?
Uh-huh.
Well, we'll have to have that soundchip changed to a dadda.
Well, you could reprogram it yourself, you know.
I know.
Hey, why don't we do it over lunch today?
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You want me to bring the robot?
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He can order pasta in 11 languages.
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I still wish we hadn't named him that.
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Welcome back.
Listen, if you want to celebrate Confederate History Month throughout the week, the best place to do it is at thepoliticalcesspool.org.
We're going to have a lot of Confederate and Southern-themed content there on the website throughout the month of April, which is, of course, Confederate History Month.
Also at my Twitter account, which is the official Twitter account for the program at James Edwards TPC.
So if you go there right now, I mean, just this very second, you're going to see a picture of our friend Eddie the Bombardier Miller holding my Confederate flag, the same Confederate flag that flew behind my altar at my wedding in 2006.
Now, this is a big flag.
I mean, look at it.
Go at James Edwards TPC and see how much it dwarfs Eddie.
And that will be there.
You will see a picture that I took in Lexington, Virginia at the tomb of Robert E. Lee.
You will see Edward Carmack's Pledge to the South, which is really one of the most stirring and moving things I have ever read.
You will also see the gravestone of one of my Confederate ancestors, who was a private in the 4th Battalion of the Mississippi Cavalry.
I am a very special person.
I descended from the only private in the Confederate Army.
Keith, you're laughing.
You're off mic, but Keith's laughing at that joke.
No, it's true.
Every guest we have on here during Confederate History Month descended from a general, except for me.
See, my guy had to go back and great-great-great-grandpa Levi had to go back and plant his fields every spring, so he got busted back down to private.
No, I'm another one that has that.
I have my ancestor not only was a private, he had a real redneck name.
He was IES Alexander, Independence Ellen Schuler Alexander.
Independence Alexander.
Now, that's a Confederate name.
Independence Ellen Schuler Alexander.
He was one of 12 children.
And I think the parents were running out of names by the end.
He had a brother named President Washington Alexander.
Well, in any event, you know, we have people like Jared Taylor.
He descended from Generals Sam Dixon, a good friend of mine.
Literally, this is no exaggeration.
He descended from the guy who lit the fuse at Fort Sumter.
That is no joke.
So this is what we're talking about, but I descended from a private.
That's a big mistake, by the way.
What do you mean?
Well, that's what Lincoln wanted us to do.
Well, South Carolina was the first to fight, by God.
Well, by golly, it would have been better if we hadn't fought and we had just gotten a non, what do you call it, an uncontested divorce from the North.
That's what we were angling for.
Lincoln was trying his best to get the hotheads in South Carolina to fire on him.
And he accomplished it.
Let me tell you something.
Now it was Sam Dixon's ancestor that did.
Well, let me tell you, it all comes down to genetic predisposition.
As Dr. Michael Hill says on this show, you know, we all descended from the Celts, and that's the Celtic way.
We're going to go in headstrong.
But listen, let's get to our guest.
He's with us for the remainder of the hour.
A first-time guest, and it's such an honor to have him on for Confederate History Month.
Paul Angel is the executive editor of the Barnes Review History Magazine based in Maryland.
He graduated from American University in 1983 with a degree in design with a strong emphasis on publications, design, marketing, and history.
Now, he is one of the founding members of the American Free Press as well, to which he also serves as the managing editor.
Prior to that, rather, he worked at Willis Cardo's Spotlight newspaper and Liberty Lobby.
He has been working in the publications business for the past 37 years.
Paul is the founder of the Free Expression Foundation based in Virginia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people who are battling court, battling in court for their free speech rights.
He is also the founder of the Poison Pinned Publishing, Life and Liberty Publishing, and FBF Books, all dedicated to getting uncensored books out to the public in print and electronic formats.
What a man he is.
But we bring him on tonight in his capacity as editor of the Barnes Review to talk about Southern history.
Paul, a great honor to have you, especially during this month.
Oh, that's my honor, James.
It's a pleasure to be here.
That intro makes me sound like I've actually done something.
Well, you're very welcome.
And listen, you're welcome.
I'm sorry, I heard you guys talking about your ancestors there.
Well, I got one of those deserter Confederate ancestors who went back to Plow Fields, too.
But then talk about some funny names.
One of my ancestors, they always like to name him after historical events, and her name was Slidellia Mason, one of my great-grandmothers.
And so if you know where that came from, obviously that's the Slidell and Mason affair.
So there you go.
I can't think I topped some of your names, but we got one in there anyway.
Well, it's great.
You know, I knew I liked you for a reason, Paul.
It's great to have a kindred spirit on.
Yeah, we had to plant the fields and go and fight.
But Keith, as you were talking about earlier, it was because we had these.
How did you put it?
Well, the Southern soldier was of a higher caliber soldier than the normal Union soldier because most Southern privates and soldiers, line troops, had been subsistence farmers who depended on being good shots and hunters in order to provide protein for their families.
And they rode horses regularly.
They were not urbanites, as so many of the northern soldiers were.
So not only were our generals better, our privates were better.
Our problem was we just didn't have enough of them.
That's right.
Outnumbered two to one on a good day.
We'll talk about that more with Paul as we go forward.
But Paul, we've spent far too much time talking this segment.
Let's talk about the Barnes Review.
First of all, if you don't mind, state the purpose of the Barnes Review, which is a journal that I would encourage everyone listening in this audience to subscribe to, but particularly tonight, the Defending Dixie edition, which came out a couple of years ago.
Very powerful, and talk about its contents as well.
Sure.
The Barnes Review was founded in 1994 by Willis Cardo, that great nationalist publisher, who probably put out more books and publications than any nationalist you're ever going to come across.
And so we've always had a strong affinity for the South, but our motto is to bring history into accord with the facts.
So this magazine is not afraid to talk about anything.
We talk about subjects all the way from Paleolithic cave painters all the way up through global warming and today from a historical context and everything in between.
But generally speaking, what you read in the Barnes Review isn't going to be what you find in the mainstream publications, the court historians, et cetera, who basically portray history from the point of view of the victors of the wars.
And we know what happens there.
You win a war and you write the history because you want to be the good guy.
Same thing is true for the Civil War.
And so as we've gone through, we have always had a good mix of material from all eras.
But we do have a strong core of our readership really likes World War II, sensitive topics from World War II, but also Southern history.
And so they're very open to this stuff, so much so that when we saw these statues getting taken down and what was happening in Charlottesville there a few years back, we decided to put together a whole issue, an expanded issue, double issue.
It's about 125 pages, 8.5 by 11.
And it was very well received.
I think we may have distributed more copies of the Defending Dixie issue than any particular issue we've ever done.
Maybe one of the other ones might have been our all-Holocaust issue.
And we've also had one on the Russian Bolshevik Revolution that was very popular.
Did one recently on World War II history that was also popular.
But in this particular issue, we were able to get to talk to some of the people who were fighting against the monument takedowns because that was kind of irritating to everybody here to see these guys that we have considered heroes our whole lives.
You know, Robert E. Lee, of course, was one of my personal heroes.
I grew up in Maryland, but I've been in Virginia the past 20 years, probably.
And it's just galling to see this.
And I remember reading a book to my kid recently I had when I was a child, and it was Great American Heroes.
And there's Robert E. Lee in there.
Well, he isn't in the fifth edition of that book anymore.
I think he's been taken by Harriet Tubman or somebody like that.
So we were able to collect together some of the monument activists.
One particular one who was working in New Orleans, we got to interview Lachlan Seabrook.
I don't know if you're familiar with his work, are you?
No, but maybe you could tell us about us.
Maybe you could tell us about him after this next break.
We took a little bit long getting into your introduction tonight, Paul.
But when we come back, it's going to be all Paul.
Paul Angel, editor-in-chief of the Barnes Review, a journal you need to be subscribing to.
We're going to give you the information on how you could do so when we come back as we continue to celebrate Confederate history exposing corruption.
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Our opening guest, our debut guest for this year's series is Paul Angel, editor of the Barnes Review.
So Paul, let's get right back to it without further ado.
First, I'd like for you to give us the information on how people can learn more about the Barnes Review and by all means subscribe to it.
And then let's get back in.
Let's dig into the contents of that very special double issue from a couple of years past, the Defending Dixie issue.
That was so powerful, it warranted you as the opening guest for this year's series.
Well, thanks, James.
Barnes Review can be reached by our website at www.barnesreview.com or barnesreview.org.
That's B-A-R-N-E-S Review.org or dot com.
And the telephone number over there in the office is 1-877-773-9077.
You can get a copy of this particular issue, which is a great introduction to the Barnes Review for $15 PPD.
That includes postage, obviously.
And like 124 pages at 8.5 by 11 is like a 250-page book.
So that's a real good deal.
Got a collection of a dozen stories in there, heavily illustrated, great captions, great editors, contributors from around the world.
And this particular one was a lot of good Southern scholars.
Now, if you want me to go straight into the content, I was mentioning Laughlin Seabrook before we went to break.
He is one of the great Southern scholars, has written dozens and dozens of books, probably has written the greatest book in Nathan Bedford Forest there is, Rebel Born.
And he's also the author of Everything You've Been Taught About the Civil War is Wrong.
Ask a Southerner.
Everything You've Been Taught About American Slavery is Wrong.
Confederate Flag Facts, Lincoln's War.
The list goes on and on.
All those things are available on our website.
And all those types of purchases do help this magazine survive, obviously, in this politically correct day and age.
A politically incorrect magazine like the Barnes Review needs every source of income.
And I'm sure you know, you've been through the same thing, credit card processing, PayPal, cancellation, the Kindle books, you know, e-books canceled.
Oh, yes.
And big partners not work.
So anything like that.
Anybody who is interested in the Barnes Review, a subscription for one year, six issues, each issue is 80 pages, and it's 56 bucks a year in the United States, and you'll get a free book.
I'll throw something in.
I'll throw in this defending Dixie issue.
You could call them up at that 1-877-773-9077 number.
Tell them you heard about Barnes Review on the James Edwards radio program, and they will be happy to throw that $15 value gift in there for you.
Well, we're going to be working.
Paul, just a quick addition to that.
We're going to be working more closely with the Barnes Review.
In fact, we already are behind the scenes, and we're going to have some special incentives and some offers for TPC listeners above and beyond that, which Paul just offered.
So stay tuned for that.
But yeah, let's get into the contents of that special issue, Paul, if we can.
The highlights, if you would.
Sure, I'll just read through some of the ones there.
We had The Great History Heist, which was by a good friend of ours.
I think you may know him, John Friend, is a writer for American Free Press and currently an editorial assistant for the Barnes Review.
Got to interview Ed DeVrees from Dixie Heritage.
I'm sure you know him too.
He's got one of the great email newsletters and also an organization dedicated to letting people know what's up with the Monument Takes Down, the discrimination against flag buffer stickers and all this other stuff that has anything to do with Confederate symbolism.
And so that interview with Ed was one of our first encounters with Ed.
He's a pastor now in Maryland, and he ended up becoming our radio show host for our own little radio hour that we do there.
We also were able to do an interview with Lachlan Seabrook in which he went through the war and corrected some of the myths about it and the falsification of history.
We interviewed a very popular New Orleans activist who had stuck his neck out to try to stop some of these statues from coming down in New Orleans named Charles Edward Lincoln III.
Very intelligent guy, a super intelligent guy, great interview.
And then we also collected together some articles that weren't interview related.
One was by Pat Shannon.
I don't know if you know him, but he's a longtime investigator.
Sure do.
There you go.
He lives in Georgia, and he took a look at the extreme measures that Lincoln took to crush any type of opposition to the war.
I mean, being from Maryland, that we were a border state, but we had more volunteers for the Confederacy than we did for the Union.
Of course, Lincoln locked up the legislature, and they were getting ready to vote to secede.
So that was an interesting story.
But, you know, we also have stuff.
We got a great article here on Dixie's Dark Secrets, and that's the number of black slave owners there were.
One of the biggest slave owners in Louisiana, I believe, maybe the number three slave owner, was a black man.
There was a lot of mulatto slave owners.
And I always point out that that famous movie, Amistad, I guess that was the name of the slave ship that they took over, the guy who was the star of the movie, what did he do?
They never tell you this.
He became a slave runner afterwards and a buyer and seller of slaves.
Yeah, yeah.
And we also had a review of a book, Rebel Private, Front Reader.
That was a great story about just from a rebel soldier's point of view, the day-to-day life, what they came across, trying to find food, trying to find shoes, trying to get the lace off yourself, going through harrowing battles, et cetera, et cetera.
We had a small article on, again, from being from Maryland, we had the song Maryland Myer, Maryland.
It's the song that Robert E. Lee's troops sang all the way up to Antietam, thinking that the Maryland citizens were going to get behind it, but they were a little too scared at the time.
But in that song, there's a line that says, the despot's heel is on the shore.
And people always thought that was Britain, and this is a song about the Revolutionary War.
But in fact, the despot was Abraham Lincoln.
So that particular state song may be gone pretty soon through the politically correct crowd.
We also had a story by another great Southern historian, a Missourian named Clint Lacey.
Don't know him.
He's written a book called Blood in the Ozark.
Know him well.
There you go.
So he's written that many probably heard about that book.
He told us about the Missouri mass exodus and General Order No. 11, in which they were basically Union and Confederate sympathizers were just told to get out and leave to stop the mass slaughter that was going on there.
Had a great story from Edward May.
He's an older historian about the blockade runners of the South.
I mean, this truly was the Civil War was probably the first World War.
Our Confederate blockade runners, once they were unable to get back into the states, were prowling the seas looking for Union shipping all over the world.
This was an incredible story about one particular rebel blockade ship that was gone for years to the point where I think they, during the war, they thought that they were all dead and they showed back up alive.
And it was just an incredible story of heroism and adventure there.
And of course, we got V.P. Hughes.
Don't know if you know her, but she was the author of a book, a really nice book, 700 pages thick, where she had collected every single newspaper account of Mosby.
Mosby during the war wasn't just a hero.
They were so fascinated with this guy.
There were stories in every newspaper about his exploits in the North and South.
And of course, during the war, he was highly respected by both.
And then after the war, you know, he thought that it's time to end the war.
I think he actually supported Grant because Grant had been relatively even-handed in his treatment of Mosby and had befriended him to some degree.
And so there's some very interesting stuff in that.
And she had thousands of articles and tried to correct this slander against Mosby that had occurred.
One of the reasons he had been gotten a bad reputation after the war was he was ferreting out corruption everywhere he went.
He became an ambassador and he became a foreign officer for the United States.
And we also have a great article by Gene Andrews on the Fort Pillow Massacre, the alleged.
You know, Gene Andrews is our next guest tonight, by the way.
Oh, you're going to love him.
Let me tell you, that is one smart guy, and he knows history of the South.
Yeah, yeah, forward and backwards.
So he's also looking out for Nathan Bedford Forrest in this particular article.
So all this is in one issue.
You just listed about half of our guest roster.
So this is all in one issue.
Right.
Well, that's Richard Kelly Hoskins, right?
He was talking about the Jim Crow double cross.
That wrapped up our issue.
Of course, within this issue are fillers and sidebars and little tidbits of great history.
Richard Kelly Hoskins tells us about Jim Crow laws and how actually they were protective of black businesses.
And once those laws were taken down, the black businesses were run out of business and taken over by the usual cast of characters.
So that's all in one issue.
I think people really like that issue.
Hey, let me tell you something.
No, I was just going to say, Paul, before the music begins, we have one more segment with you.
I mean, Keith, very few guests can keep Keith Alexander quiet, but you've managed to do it this segment.
And listen, I met my co-host, my right-hand guy.
We wouldn't have a show without Keith, that's for sure.
I'm at BarnesReview.org right now.
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You know, folks, 16 years into this, this is our 16th year on the air, if you can believe it.
But this is what it's all about.
When I started this show, this is what I had in mind, nights like tonight, guests like Paul Angel.
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A picture I took at the tomb of Robert E. Lee in Lexington, Virginia, a couple of years ago when I was there paying my respects.
The marble sarcophagus is just so striking.
Even in Eternal Peace, his hand still reaches for his sword.
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And I tell you, there's not a more emotional month in our calendar than this, is it, Keith?
You're right.
That's what it is.
Paul, let me ask you a question, if I could.
Would you say that Leo DeRosher's comment, the nice guys finished last, would apply to the way the South prosecuted this war and that it was a major reason why we lost it?
And what I have in mind, for example, is, as far as I understand it, there was one Union town torched and burned down by Confederate troops.
That was either Chambersburg, Maryland, or Pennsylvania by Jubal Early's troops to protest Sherman's march to the sea.
But on the other hand, in Mississippi alone, which wasn't a major theater in the war, 43 Confederate towns were torched by Union troops.
It was the first time that I can think of of this total war concept of waging war against the civilian population.
Am I right in that assumption?
And if not, tell me what is wrong about it, what you think about it.
No, I think you're 100% right.
As a matter of fact, in that issue I was just talking about, that was all I had room for in the table of contents.
One of the stories in here is Sherman's policy of annihilation, written from a German who had seen what had happened during World War II.
And the way this war, this was, I think, the first war that targeted civilians in such a horrendous fashion.
It's what you're never going to hear about in the Northern history books.
And they had another choice.
I guess they could have waged this war as a guerrilla war instead of waging it like men.
And it could have dragged on for years and years.
But I mean, Lee probably could have kept on fighting himself, but he made the decision he didn't want to see any more slaughter.
So, I mean, that's how they were thinking, that at some point in time, enough people had died here that no more deaths was to happen.
But what Sherman did and what Sheridan did, I guess, in the Shenandoah, and what they did afterwards to the same war was waged against the American Indian in the same type of way, get rid of the food supply, attack women.
What about the Germans at Dresden?
I mean, this isn't the end.
You want another show, then you'll have to call me on for that one because we could go on seriously.
But you are 100% right.
It just wasn't the way they waged war, and they purposely went out.
Look at what Lee did on his way to Antietam.
He forbade them, I think, under penalty of death, not to pilfer from civilians.
You know, John F. Kennedy, I think, made Andrew Johnson one of his profiles in courage.
And, you know, if you would address that, after the Civil War with the death of Lincoln and the ascendancy of the radical Republicans, they had some really extreme positions that they were going to bring into play had it not been for Andrew Johnson manfully standing up to them and defying them and coming within one vote of being removed from office by impeachment.
Am I wrong with that assumption?
That impeachment would comment on that.
A recent impeachment effort that's gone on here in the United States.
It was completely bogus charges against them.
They passed a law that forbade Johnson from being able to fire Stanton.
And he wanted to get rid of Stanton because Stanton was one of the ones who wanted to instigate this new policy of horrendous treatment of much what they did to the Germans, disarmament and such.
And, of course, it wasn't very good as it was during Reconstruction era with the number of Northerners who came down and also the number of blacks who ascended to political office there.
I don't think it would be too much of a stress to say that if the radical Republicans had had their way, they would have been executing ex-Confederates.
Do you think so?
And James's point that the parallels between that and the Nuremberg trials are very similar.
I mean, look at Wertz, right, at Andersonville.
The man went to go to Washington or went to Washington to beg for food and supplies.
He couldn't take care of this number of prisoners, and they rebuffed him because at that point in time, they were more worried about finishing off the last remaining Southerners and knowing that every ensuing battle, every 12,000 or 15,000 or 20,000 men that Lee would lose, Grant could afford to lose 40,000, and that was all at that point in time they were worried about and knew they could outlay.
They could lose every battle and win the war.
Well, I mean, listen to those last five battles.
James knows this.
I live on the wilderness battlefield, a portion that was built upon in the 1950s.
I believe we do have a large area that's protected, but I'm only 15 minutes from Chancellorsville, maybe 10 minutes and 15 minutes from Fredericksburg and 30 minutes from Spotsylvania Courthouse.
And Appomattox is out here.
And so all these last five battles of the Overland campaign by Grant, I think, were won by the Confederates.
But I think at Coal Harbor, for instance, it was 40,000 Union dead, 20,000 for Lee.
And so they just couldn't carry on anymore.
Exactly.
They just rolled.
It was one rolling battle after another after Grant got command of the Army of the Potomac, I believe.
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Now, you just mentioned you live in an area of Virginia that is so close to so many iconic battles and incidents.
Chancellorsville was one of the great Confederate victories, one of the most iconic Confederate victories.
And it was not unlike so many where we were outnumbered two to one.
I mean, what kind of people go into battle outnumbered two to one at every turn, except for those who are so convinced that they are on the side of the just and the righteous?
And those Celtic descendants who fight for what they believe in to defend their homes in their hearts.
I was reading up on the Chancellorsville battle just a few days ago.
The Confederates were outnumbered more than two to one, 60,000 Confederates to nearly 134,000 unions, and they won a resounding victory.
It is incredible.
But there is a lesser-known battle that you are very near to in your current location, Paul.
The Battle of the Wilderness.
Now, even in 16 years, we have never mentioned this battle on the air.
And we have three minutes remaining this hour as I remind everybody one more time to go to BarnesReview.org and subscribe.
Paul, tell us about the Battle of the Wilderness.
Well, like I said, the Battle of the Wilderness was the first of the remaining Overland battles.
So Grant at this point in time was just trying to cut Lee off from joining up with the other armies left over in the West.
And so he knew he could have as many casualties as he could sustain, tens of thousands more than Lee could.
And every time Lee would win a little battle or draw a battle and try to withdraw, Grant would move back in front of him.
And so we went from the Battle of the Wilderness, which was in May 1865, and both sides claimed victory on that, but really it was a southern victory.
And not too much in the wilderness.
We do know that this whole area from Fredericksburg all the way to where I am out, the Old Plank Road, Orange Road, which is about 15 miles from Fredericksburg, was all known as a wilderness back then.
And it was a wilderness.
I guess it had been logged or whatever, but it isn't like it is now with these forests we have that are open.
It was massive amounts of scrub brush.
And the story of the Battle of the Wilderness is a sad one that wounded soldiers on both sides were caught up and powder would ignite the brush and no one could get through it.
And they're burned alive and screaming to their comrades to save them.
Of course, that battle was 5th to 7 of May, right?
This battle, these last five or six battles just kept going.
It was, excuse me, May 5 to 7 in 1865 for the wilderness.
Then they went to Spotsylvania Courthouse.
That was like three days later.
That was a 13-day battle.
A couple days later, they were over at the Battle of North Anna, which is over here by Lake Anna by me.
And that was a great battle, too.
Lee almost had them trapped into a very clever defensive formation.
Unfortunately, I think he had intestinal illness.
Then they went to Coal Harbor, and that was just five days later, and that lasted two weeks.
And then after that, finally, they were only, by this point in time, they got to Petersburg, which was only 10 miles away from Richmond.
And by the way, that was when I think Grant spread his trenches out like 30 miles.
But we know all about the trench warfare of the Civil War.
But this particular one was the first time it had gone on this long, and that style of warfare lasted into World War I.
So the Battle of Petersburg is kind of forecasting what's going to be the style of battle in World War II.
Was that the Battle of the Crater?
Did that happen during that Petersburg part of the campaign?
That's right, the Union at Petersburg.
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