My half-baked, amateur speculations on this brief video:
“Can You Explain to Me What the Average Confederate Soldier Was Fighting For?"
Sam Watkins said he identified with the Cavaliers. Demographic maps of the early American colonies do show that large areas were occupied by the Cavaliers. He was, however, a private. A society cannot be composed entirely of Cavaliers because each one needs servants. Besides, many of the Southerners came from places that had been under English rule. Can it be they told themselves the British or British-loyal aristocracy are no different from them, except they have land and servants? Can it be they hoped to model the aristocracy?
He claims their side wanted freedom but they may have wanted the freedom to govern their society with unwritten ethnofascist rules which enabled them to blacklist outsiders to trap them into helping them run the manor they may have someday hoped to have. Freedom for the Antebellum class to use outsiders without Federal control may have been the dream.
It may be what happened to Eli Whitney. He went to Georgia on the promise of a job, then the job mysteriously evaporated when he arrived. He had to go to work for a rich woman and perhaps became intimately familiar with the inefficiency of removing cotton seeds by hand. He and she worked out the cotton gin. Somehow the design for the cotton gin got around to the other planters before they could patent it. One hopes she wasn’t farming the unfortunate gentleman out to other plantation owners.
It is said Lee lost the battle of Gettysburg because he couldn’t communicate clearly and unambiguously with his subordinates and lost tactical focus because Gettysburg was not the main objective of the campaign. Perhaps he wasn’t drinking. Perhaps, when he invaded their homes, Pennsylvanians started praying and he lost his spiritual rapport with his personal Anne Sullivan.
According to the ever-reliable internet, no person in Scotland ever says “Utman.” It is Arabic for Ottoman. Perhaps some of the English/Scotch/Irish gentry whom the Confederate rank and file wanted to model had partaken of some human trafficking from the Barbary Pirates, who had explained Ottoman-style slavery to the common folk they met while delivering their traffic? Apparently, the Ottomans would buy infants with an intelligent pedigree and would raise them to be administrative slaves.
There are intelligent non-antebellum professionals all over the South who don’t only live in Republican areas. However, there is often something hippie-like (Cavalier-like?) about them. It is easy to speculate that the price of entry may be to share one’s self with the Confederate privates?
“Can You Explain to Me What the Average Confederate Soldier Was Fighting For?"
Sam Watkins said he identified with the Cavaliers. Demographic maps of the early American colonies do show that large areas were occupied by the Cavaliers. He was, however, a private. A society cannot be composed entirely of Cavaliers because each one needs servants. Besides, many of the Southerners came from places that had been under English rule. Can it be they told themselves the British or British-loyal aristocracy are no different from them, except they have land and servants? Can it be they hoped to model the aristocracy?
He claims their side wanted freedom but they may have wanted the freedom to govern their society with unwritten ethnofascist rules which enabled them to blacklist outsiders to trap them into helping them run the manor they may have someday hoped to have. Freedom for the Antebellum class to use outsiders without Federal control may have been the dream.
It may be what happened to Eli Whitney. He went to Georgia on the promise of a job, then the job mysteriously evaporated when he arrived. He had to go to work for a rich woman and perhaps became intimately familiar with the inefficiency of removing cotton seeds by hand. He and she worked out the cotton gin. Somehow the design for the cotton gin got around to the other planters before they could patent it. One hopes she wasn’t farming the unfortunate gentleman out to other plantation owners.
It is said Lee lost the battle of Gettysburg because he couldn’t communicate clearly and unambiguously with his subordinates and lost tactical focus because Gettysburg was not the main objective of the campaign. Perhaps he wasn’t drinking. Perhaps, when he invaded their homes, Pennsylvanians started praying and he lost his spiritual rapport with his personal Anne Sullivan.
According to the ever-reliable internet, no person in Scotland ever says “Utman.” It is Arabic for Ottoman. Perhaps some of the English/Scotch/Irish gentry whom the Confederate rank and file wanted to model had partaken of some human trafficking from the Barbary Pirates, who had explained Ottoman-style slavery to the common folk they met while delivering their traffic? Apparently, the Ottomans would buy infants with an intelligent pedigree and would raise them to be administrative slaves.
There are intelligent non-antebellum professionals all over the South who don’t only live in Republican areas. However, there is often something hippie-like (Cavalier-like?) about them. It is easy to speculate that the price of entry may be to share one’s self with the Confederate privates?
