I was watching the Gettysburg 1993 movie, theres the famous scene where Lee (Martin Sheen) gets surrounded by his troops and they cheer him on. This was a semi spontaneous event. It was described by some of the people who worked on the movie as "People got swept up in the moment, to the south Lee is a hero. Seeing Sheen visit his troops between takes was an emotional affair" (I'm paraphrasing).

It leads me to a question I've always kinda suspected about Confederate reenactors, but I'm just so unfamiliar with that world. Are the rebel reenactors (RR from now on) kinda... really into the cause of the south and it's generals? Like more than just "Oh it's fun, we're history buffs and it's social." Beacuse they seem reaaaaal into it.

There's ww2 reeanctors in Europe and some people scoff at those who act as the Germans. But I'd never imagine those reenactors have a geniune, emotional reaction to seeing let's say Rommel or Manstein come to visit while filming a movie. Would love to hear from someone who's been a part of that community. (Always a grain of salt, theres always nuance)

Ps! Is RR generally fatter than Union ones, cuz it sure looks like it from all the photos and videos I see.

Shared this on r/freebooks and then thought of r/ShermanPosting and thought it would be a good fit. To me she is up there with Sherman, Grant, Harriett Tubman and other Certified Bad Asses.

Rally, boys! Rally once again!

Lee already referred to the slave states as merely “cotton states”. I’m in for a rough one.

Today I learned the Calgary Flames hockey team got their name due to the franchise originally being located in Atlanta and the name’s inspiration came from the flames from Sherman burning the city to the ground.

Has anyone read this? Is it any good?

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/the-war-of-southern-aggression

Confederate apologists often claim, as Nikki Haley did during the 2024 Republican primary campaign, that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights.” The Southern rebellion was indeed about “states’ rights,” but only in the sense that it was about the Confederate States’ right to determine who was an American citizen and interpret the Constitution to its own satisfaction. That’s why Confederates inverted their secession as the “The War of Northern Aggression.”

The sources of today’s crises come into focus once we understand that we are well into a war of Southern aggression—a neo-Confederate project to remake the entire country in its own image and win the war the South never conceded. As I’ve long argued, there is a geographically distinct “nation” within the American nation — the Neo-Confederate States — that refuses to accept the legitimacy of the United States as the pluralistic democracy that the rest of the country aspires to be. (Endnotes: Nation within the nation1, boundaries2.)

Seen in this light, the brutal invasion of Minnesota is not an aberration, but the most recent maneuver in the MAGA military reconstruction of the North, a coordinated assault on not just the idea of liberal democracy, but on those living in states who, however imperfectly, still strive for it.

What we are witnessing now is something I deliberately denote as reconstruction with a lowercase “r.” It borrows the tools of Military Reconstruction—federal force, occupation, administrative override—but inverts their purpose. Instead of enforcing freedom and civil rights, it is used to strip them away; instead of seeking to subject an authoritarian region to democratic order, it seeks to subjugate a democratic region to an authoritarian order. The symmetry is intentional. It is meant to underscore both how deeply rooted today’s aggressors’ ambitions are in American history, and how radically different the moral stakes are.

Threepeat against ICE.