SCLoS Historian: Points to Ponder

This is the provocative and untold story of the Union's "hard war" against the people of the Confederacy, a war that included the shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering of personal property, and even murder. Author Walter Brian Cisco explores with a passion matched by the force of his arguments how the Union army, backed by the Lincoln administration, deliberately discarded the civilized tradition of excluding noncombatants from military action. He moves chronologically through the war, examining how this brutal mindset determined Union actions across the landscape of the South—the pillage of Fredericksburg, the shelling of Charleston, the sack of Athens, the burning of Atlanta, the destruction of Columbia, the infamous "March to the Sea," to name but a few. Special chapters document the suffering of women and children in prison, and Union abuse of African-Americans.

"American who read War Crimes Against Southern Civilians will have a more sober and true, and less self-righteous, understanding of our country."
Dr. Clyde N. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Carolina

"[Cisco's book] blows the lid off the conspiracy of silence about the violent, mass-murdering origins of the American Leviathan state..."
Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln

"Despite the spinning of romantic historians, hard evidence indicates that the invasion of the South is the American enormity."
Dr. David Aiken, editor of A City Laid Waste

"Every seeker of the real story behind the sanitized myths of American history should read this book."
Dr. James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers' Fields

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Points to Ponder

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire

“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”
John Stuart Mill

“For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.”
Gore Vidal

“The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.”
Ayn Rand

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
Salman Rushdie

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984

South Carolina League of the South

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