This day in history.....

[HomeLAN]

That kind of question doesn't have a simple answer, and the answers you do get will all be opinion. That being said, here's this Southerner's opinion: Economics.

While the South was abundant in raw materials, it was enimic in industry. It had tons of cotton it couldn't turn into textile products. It had plenty of ore it couldn't render into ammunition. Considering your line of work, I'm sure you're aware of what happens to a superior army with inferior supply infrastructure.

BTW, here's a bunch more opinions.

 

[Gato_Solo]

What I was taught was that the Confederacy lost the war because getting supplies to the front was a royal pain. They had a rail system, but each state had slightly different rail gauges, so the North could use superior numbers to counter the South's superior tactics. I would welcome SnP's take on this, as well as him starting a thread of his own. I expect it to be a battleground, but I also expect it to be one of ideas, and not insults.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

One main reason why the South lost (and this may seem offbeat because it flies in the face of the common wisdom) is that the South lacked the moral center that the North had in this conflict.

So, one key reason the South lost is that as time went on and the war got serious, Southerners began losing faith in the cause because it really did not speak to them directly.

Oh for the love of fried catfish. Any army that would endorse the behavior of William Tecumseh Sherman has zero right to any moral high ground.

Sherman was every bit the monster Hitler was. I hope his hide is nice and crispy in Hell by now.

 

[HomeLAN]

Either way, we're talking about supply issues. You say it's logistical, I say it's systematic.

And we're both talking out of our asses, because no one can point ot a single cause with certainty why that type of war was won or lost.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I would welcome SnP's take on this, as well as him starting a thread of his own. I expect it to be a battleground, but I also expect it to be one of ideas, and not insults.

Been there, done that. You start it, I'll contribute as time allows. Busy busy busy today...

 

[Mare]

April 16th


1912: Pilot Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

1917: Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia after years of exile to lead the radical socialist Bolshevik party to power during the October Revolution.

1962: Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite becomes anchor of the CBS Evening News.


1999: The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, announces his retirement from professional hockey.

 

[Mare]

April 17th


1492: Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain, giving him a commission to seek a westward passage to Asia.
Learn more about Christopher Columbus.

1861: The Virginia convention votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.

1961: U.S.-backed Cuban exiles land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro's government; the mission is thwarted and the invaders killed or captured.

1964: The Ford Motor Company unveils its new car, the Mustang.

1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968.

 

[Mare]

April 18


1775: Paul Revere begins his legendary midnight ride to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, to warn patriots that British troops were approaching.

1906: A devastating earthquake and subsequent fires ravage San Francisco, California, destroying most of the city's downtown.

1949: Eire formally withdraws from the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.

1980: The southern African nation of Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe after it is granted black majority rule.

1982: Queen Elizabeth II signs the Constitution Act of 1982, which replaces the British North America Act of 1867 as Canada's Constitution.

 

[Mare]

April 19th


1775: The "shot heard 'round the world" is fired by British troops at Lexington, Massachusetts, beginning the American Revolution.

1956: American movie star Grace Kelly becomes Princess Grace when she marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

1982: American astronaut Sally Ride is the first woman selected for the NASA program.

1993: After a 51-day siege, U.S. federal agents storm the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; a fire breaks out killing at least 80 Branch members and leader David Koresh.

1995: A truck bomb blows up outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 168 people are killed.

 

[Mare]

April 20th


1812: George Clinton is the first vice president of the United States to die in office.

1841: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," considered the first detective story, is published in Philadelphia.

1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium.

1968: Pierre Elliot Trudeau is sworn in as Canada's new prime minister.

 

[chcr]

1812: George Clinton is the first vice president of the United States to die in office.

Hmm... Any relation to the king of funk???

 

[Mare]

April 22


1864: Congress authorizes the use of the phrase, "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.

1889: A gunshot signals the start of the government-sponsored Oklahoma Land Rush; thousands of Americans rush into the territory to claim land.

1915: At the Second Battle of Pyres during World War I, German troops release deadly chlorine gas on Allied troops; it is the first major use of chemical weapons.

1915: The New York Yankees debut their famous pinstripes and hat-in-the-ring logo.


1970: Earth Day, an event intended to increase public awareness of environmental issues and to promote conservation of the world's resources, was first celebrated.


1976: Barbara Walters signs a record $1 million contract with ABC and becomes the first female nightly news anchor in the United States.


2005:Mare signs her divorce papers to be filed to her hubby!

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

1889: A gunshot signals the start of the government-sponsored Oklahoma Land Rush; thousands of Americans rush into the territory to claim land.

As the thousands of rightful owners are herded into reservations so their land can be taken from them. A real shining moment in US history.

 

[Mare]

April 26th



1607: A group of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, land at Cape Henry, Virginia, where they will establish the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

1865: Nearly two weeks after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, actor John Wilkes Booth is cornered by a posse of U.S. soldiers; he is either shot or commits suicide.

1983: The Dow Jones Industrial average breaks the 1,200 mark for the first time.

1986: The world's worst nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl' plant in the Soviet Union; hundreds of thousands are exposed to dangerous levels of radioactive debris.

1989: Actress and comedian Lucille Ball, star of the popular television series I Love Lucy, dies in Los Angeles.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in many states. Take time to remember those who died for the idea of freedom.

 

[Inkara1]

There was this girl I had a crush on for most of 7th grade, all of 8th and 9th grade, and most of 10th grade. Her name was Cathy and her birthday is April 26.

Oddly enough, the next girl I liked had the same birthday, but was a year older.

 

[Mare]

April 27th


1861: After Virginia secedes from the United States, West Virginia secedes from Virginia and forms its own state.

1937: In the United States, the first social security checks were distributed.

1950: Following the institution of apartheid in 1948, South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating the country's racial groups.

 

[Mare]

April 28th


1789: Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the British ship Bounty; Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crew members were set adrift on a small boat.

1945: Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator, is shot by the Italian Resistance in Dongo, Italy; his mistress, Clara Petacci, and members of his entourage are also shot.

1960: French president Charles de Gaulle resigns after his proposals for constitutional reforms are defeated in a national referendum.

1967: World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army for religious reasons; he is later convicted of draft evasion and stripped of his title.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

April 28, 1941:

Papa SnP was born. This event would later bear relevence when his first born offspring would...well, you know how I turned out.

ol' man!

 

[Mare]

April 29th


1429: Joan of Arc, a 17-year-old French peasant convinced she has a divine mission to expel the British from France, leads troops into the besieged city of Orléans.

1945: German dictator Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker; the following day they commit suicide.

1980: British-born director Alfred Hitchcock, best known for psychological suspense films such as Psycho, dies at 80.

1984: Britain announces that its administration of Hong Kong will cease in 1997, when it will return the colony to China.

1992: One of the worst riots in U.S. history erupts in Los Angeles, California, when a jury acquits four white police officers of beating black motorist Rodney King.