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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:39 PM Original message |
Slave in Jefferson Davis' home gave Union key secrets |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. Awesome |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. K & R |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. You'd think Davis would have seen it coming. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Davis wasn't a good leader |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Women were ignored for the same reason ... |
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justinaforjustice (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Yup, Subpoena the Secretaries. |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. K and R |
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Ecumenist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Off topic but I'm curious...are you Welsh? |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. What gave it away? |
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Ecumenist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:24 AM Response to Reply #17 |
33. I recognise the language. I am of a mixed ancestry..african |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 01:26 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. My grandmother |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. A true hero |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. Great! thanks for posting nt |
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Wickerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. That is such poetry |
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Ecumenist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
10. I've always said that it works in your favour if people think |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was going to ask what happened to him afterwards... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Okay, who should play Robert Smalls? |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. That would make a great film |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Didn't it? MEANT to be a movie. |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Oh, wow, YESSSSS! Great story and would be a GREAT MOVIE! nt |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Wonder if anyone has done any research to try and find out? |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. Thanks for this information! |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
19. That is one of the most AWESOME stories I have ever heard. |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. Incredible. |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
21. Fascinating! |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. It's only a shame Davis, Lee, and the rest of the leaders didn't swing from the nearest tree |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. That was something that Abraham Lincoln |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Sounds like the South got "pardoned". Like Nixon. And walked...like Bush, Cheney et al. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 07:49 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Yes, virtually every man that served in the Confederate Army. |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
23. That's pretty damn cool. |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
24. Here's the book, or article from the CIA's website |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-21-09 11:44 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. thanks! |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. This is poignant.. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
29. Just did some quick research |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-09 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
30. I bet there are heads a spinning like Linda Blair down here in MS. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-22-09 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
34. Jefferson Davis quoted: "I don't think anybody could have predicted this". |
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