It is a simple but elegant banner: a blue St. Andrews cross, trimmed in white with 13 white stars, on a red background.
It still stirs the passions as much as it did nearly a century and a half ago. It is the Confederate battle flag.This banner, which flies over the South Carolina capitol (and is explicitly incorporated into the state flags of Mississippi and Georgia), became a matter of presidential politics during the period leading up to that states recent presidential primary. Debate has not been limited to South Carolina. Everyone, far and near, seems to have an opinion about the flag.Indeed, it has become grist for the mill of Northern as well as Southern newspapers.Why all the fuss?
A reasonable person might argue that the whole affair is much ado about nothing, a needless distraction from the questions that should concern primary voters. As Al Gores recent denunciation of Confederate flag-waving Republicans demonstrates, the topic has been raised primarily to embarrass the Republican candidates. It is nonetheless important because of what the debate says about us as a people.To its detractors, including many, if not most, African-Americans, the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of racism and oppression. To its defenders, the same flag is a symbol of valor against overwhelming odds on behalf of a noble but hopeless cause.
In other words, the Confederate battle flag has become a mirror for America. Reflecting on this requires that we avoid the twin extremes of either romanticizing the South or demonizing it.Opponents rightly criticize what might be called the moonlight and magnolias view of the ante-bellum South, exemplified by Margaret Mitchells novel, Gone with the Wind, and the movie of the same name. This is a romanticized version of the Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War. According to this view, the Confederacy fought for a noble causenot slavery, but freedom from the oppressive power of the central national government. Southern patriots were the true heirs of the American Revolution but their cause was doomed from the start because of the immense disparity in resources between the South and the industrialized and populous North.I was raised in this tradition. My forebears were Texans and Marylanders who fought for the Confederacy.
In our household, the battle flag symbolized the valor shown by Southerners, most of whom did not own slaves, on countless battlefields.But while the part of the Lost Cause interpretation that stresses the valor of the soldiers is true, the part that claims that states rights and not slavery was the cause of the war is demonstrably false. The states rights argument became a staple of post-war Southern apologetics, advanced by such prominent Confederates as President Jefferson Davis and Vice-President Alexander Stephens, and is still invoked by neo-Confederates and their allies today.In fact, the sequence of events that made Lincolns election in 1860 inevitable began with a demand by Southerners for an expansion of federal power, not a defense of states rights. During the Democratic convention in Charleston in April 1860, the delegates from the seven states of the deep South walked out when the majoritywho had come to nominate Stephen Douglasrefused to accept a plank calling for a federal guarantee of slave property in all US Territories. By nominating their own candidate for president, the Southerners split the Democratic vote and ensured Lincolns election by a plurality of only about 40 percent.I came face to face with the falsity of the states rights claim when I was a doctoral candidate in political philosophy about 20 years ago.
I fully intended to write my dissertation on Stephens A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, the most detailed presentation of the states rights position and articulate defense of the idea that secession was a constitutional right having little or nothing to do with slavery. But then I met Harry V. Jaffa, Americas foremost Lincoln scholar, who asked me if I had ever read Stephens Cornerstone speech. Like most Southerners, I had not.I was astounded by what Stephens said to the people of Savannah, Georgia on March 21, 1861. In this speech, delivered after the inauguration of Lincoln and before Fort Sumpter when Southerners believed the Confederacy would peacefully achieve its independence, Stephens repudiated the Declaration of Independence as the sandy foundation of the old Constitution.In the course of his speech, Stephens acknowledged slavery to be the cause of the sectional crisis besetting the nation, and claimed that the new Confederate constitution would solve the problem upon which the old Union had foundered. The foundations of our new Government are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition
So the old saw that states rights and not slavery was the cause of the Civil War is not true. But Northerners need to avoid the sort of triumphalism that characterizes so many anti-flag editorials.
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Unlike many Northern newspaper editorial writers, Lincoln never blamed the South exclusively for slavery. He stated that had he been in the position of Southern slaveholders, he would probably have behaved as they did. He understood that slavery was a national, not a regional sin.For instance, when slavery was abolished in the North, Northern slave owners were more likely to sell their slaves south than to free them. In addition, many Yankees grew rich in the slave trade. The scions of these slave-trading families often became staunch abolitionists, denouncing in the most extreme terms those who still owned the offspring of the human beings their own forebears had transported to America. Indeed, Brown University, mocked by many as PCU, was founded by a family whose fortune was based to a great extent on the triangular slave trade.It cannot be denied that the Southern Confederacy was formed in order to perpetuate an evil institution. But it is also true that in this bad cause, Southerners fought with great bravery and perseverance against immense odds, long after prudence dictated that they should have given up.
Defenders of the flag see themselves as honoring this bravery.In fact, no group of Americans has ever suffered more as the result of war than Southerners during the Civil War. As the Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian James McPherson has noted, one quarter of the white men of military age in the South died in the war. Altogether nearly four percent of the Southern people, black and white, civilians and soldiers, died as a consequence of the war. This percentage exceeded the toll of any country in World War I and was outstripped only by the region between the Rhine and Volga in World War II.Ultimately, the question of whether or not the Confederate battle flag should fly over the South Carolina state house is one that must be decided by the good citizens of South Carolina themselves. A substantial minority of white Carolinians want the flag to come down. Many support the governors proposal to move the flag to a Confederate memorial near the capitol (a move I myself support). But it should be noted that in 1996, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War voted overwhelmingly to oppose removal of the flag.
In so doing they were reflecting the view articulated by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the Supreme Court Justice and Civil War hero in a Memorial Day speech he delivered in 1884.We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win; we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluble;
that slavery had lasted long enough.
Hi I wanted to know more about the Confederation of the Rhine, Im new so sorry for my test posts I posted this before it said 'seeking moderator approval' and didnt show up but my test posts did.I'm looking for details of the Confederation flag, colours, standards and so on, even troop uniforms if possible and was it just a loose coalition and the unifroms of its respective German states?Apparntly this is floating around the internet as its flag and even wikipedia had it for a whilebut wikipedia has since changed it to thisthe normal french flag, with french gold eagle standard. This is the change's source:Can annyone confirm this and what about that eagle standard? Was that generic french or just used for the Rhine. Wow, Prince, thanks!!! So lets take the vanilla French Campaign, how do you think it could be better improved to reflect the Confederation?1.
The map of the German states would have to be redrawn to reflect the diversity of states (and that is probably not going to happen).2. Have a dynamic map where national borders change automatically (again unlikely to happen in this version of NTW).3. As neither 1 nor 2 are likely, allow the current territories to recruit troops from the multiple states that existed historically within their borders e.g. In Baden-Wurttemburg you would be allowed to recruit troops from both Baden & Wurttemburg etc.4. Also the game needs to give you the option to call for the formation of the Rheinbund. K just needed to come back to this because while I appreciate the great help in finding out about troops, I'm mainly wondering about flags and battle flags. I can't seem to find any thing concrete on what the Confed.Rhine used, and did they have any shared battle flags?, thanks.Individual contingents/regiments had their own flags.
There was no single flag for the troops of the Rheinbund. A good source for the regimental flags is where you can drop down to Baden, Bavaria, Berg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Saxony, Westphalia, Wurttemburg & Smaller German States.
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Confederationof the Rhine1806-1813TheConfederation of the Rhine was formed in 1806 when 16 German minorstates decided to throw their nations' futures in with and ally themselves with France.
Treaty Of Tilsit 1807
Confederationof the Rhine1806-1813TheConfederation of the Rhine was formed in 1806 when 16 German minorstates decided to throw their nations' futures in with and ally themselves with France.
This month, the Army of the Month post will cover my “veteran” Rhine states. Commonly called the Confederation of the Rhine (CotR), this collection of minor state contingents has seen many a tabletop actioneither en mass or as individual units for the major powers.To the pictures.First up is a right flank view of the entire Rhine states collection. The army is ranked across the front with 1st & 2nd CotR regiments (Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg) in foreground, then we have 3rd regt. (Frankfort a Main), 4th regt. (Saxon Duchies), and 5th regt. (Lippe & Anhalt) just before the road. Each “column” contains units of that minor state contingent / regimental group.
Rhine states left flank view, Mecklenburg in foreground.Closer view (r to l by column) shows the 1st Nassau regiment, the 2nd Nassau regiment, the Nassau chasseurs a cheval squadron. Next comes the Frankfurt a Main contingent; Frankfurt btn.
In Spain, the CotR Frankfurt a Main “junior” regiment, a Frankfurt jager btn. And the Frankfurt “hussars”.sort of gendarmerie. Next column has the Saxon Duchies.1st btn. Has Saxon Gotha-Altenburg, 2nd btn.
Has Saxon Colburg-Saalfeld, Saxon-Meiningen and Saxon-Meiningen-Hildburghausen. Followed them is the Saxon Weimar jagers (1807 uniform) and Saxon Weimar carabiners (1812 uniform). The two cavalrymen are the Saxon Weimar “hussars” and mtd.
Jagers (1813). Each of these btns. Have their freiwilligen jager detachment painted for those 1813-1814 battles. Lastly, the “yellow coat” miniature near the front is the famous Saxon Gotha-Altenburg Garde du Corps.
How can you not paint up that “crack unit”. Rear view as the CotR marches forwardWR’s Rhine states army was painted in the late 70s for a local group campaign. After painting several units WR finished off all the Rhine states just in case the French call for “reinforcements”. Still waiting for that call.but meanwhile, the Rhine states fill in odd units to create visual effect and support on the tabletop.
Their flexibility lends them to all campaigns during the 1806-1813 period.Visit WR’s Napoleonic Game Rules: Videos & Files section tab for additional information on this army, including uniforms plates and army organization.If you have odd unpainted miniatures in your collection.the Rhine states are always recruiting new players to their cause. They are a colorful brunch with lots of character. Check them out.WR. Peter,Headcount for the Rhine states is 239 miniatures:220 Infantry miniatures16 Cavalry5 Commanders / ADC’s3 batteries with crewPainted at 1:100 scale ratio common for our gaming group games. So roughly 23,900 represented soldiers. I omitted the Dutch btns. (2×6) from above count since they would be under the Kingdom of Holland banner.
Once you painted a Rhinebund battalion.there is no turning back.Austrians, Frenchmen, Prussians. Russians will never be the same.WRP.S. Best for the New Year in gaming.
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