Brooks Simpson

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• Elbert Guillory Gets Right With Lincoln and the Republican Party (1)
  • Pat Young { My dad was a Republican who brought me up to think of his party as the Party of Lincoln. In 1968 Nixon worked effectively to... } – Jun 19, 3:09 AM
• "No Hired Hessians or Negroes in the Southern Army" (18)
  • Pat Young { Interestingly, when German Union troops were stationed in the South they would often seek out local Germans on the assumption that German solidarity would transcend... } – Jun 19, 2:52 AM
  • Pat Young { By calling German American soldiers "Hessians" Confederate propagandists were claiming that they were mercenaries. They were also implying that they were not really Americans, only... } – Jun 19, 2:40 AM
  • London John { Confederate propaganda greatly exagerrated the importance of immigrants in the Union army, while also claiming that American-born Union soldiers had had unmanly or menial peace-time... } – Jun 19, 12:36 AM
  • Craig L. { There could also be residual hostility in the southern narrative to immigrants, particularly Germans, whose presence in southern states represented a fifth column in support... } – Jun 18, 8:08 PM
  • Pat Young { It must have been odd if you were one of the few immigrants fighting for the Confederacy to hear your fellow immigrants disparaged so blatantly... } – Jun 18, 6:37 PM
  • Andy Hall { The reference to “hired Hessians” strikes me as more of an allusion to the American Revolution than to the Civil War.It is a reference to... } – Jun 18, 5:40 PM
  • Craig L. { The reference to "hired Hessians" strikes me as more of an allusion to the American Revolution than to the Civil War. My dad's ancestors were... } – Jun 18, 5:00 PM
  • Kevin Levin { The value of the account has nothing to do with Fall's position. The interesting point is that he apparently did not think twice about making... } – Jun 18, 7:42 AM
  • BorderRuffian { What does Fall have in common with Clark Lee? Neither has a Confederate service record. * Fall: "I was ADC with rank of Colonel on... } – Jun 18, 7:24 AM
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