Alpo Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 The woman was born in 1882. In 1916 she's telling someone, "My father fought in the War of '98, and the Insurrection". That would be Spanish American and the War of 1861? Kansas was Yankee, right? That's why Quantrill burned Lawrenceburg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel-eye Steve SASS #40674 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 My guess, Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection. Kansas stayed in the Union. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Kansas was a hotbed of contention in the Was of Union Aggression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Why Union Aggression? Who fired on who first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 8 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Why Union Aggression? Who fired on who first? Lincoln was sending troops into SC. Sounds like an invasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 43 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Lincoln was sending troops into SC. Sounds like an invasion. Troops were already in S.C. And, probably every other Southern state, since they were all in the Union at the start. 4T is speaking of who fired first, and I believe that would be PGT Beauregard taking aim at his former US Military Academy instructor Robert Anderson inside Ft Sumter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I believe Steel Eyed Steve is correct, as to the Span Am War and the following Philippine Insurrection. Otherwise, if it was the Civil War being described as the "Insurrection" it would have been first in her description of her father's service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 5 hours ago, Steel-eye Steve SASS #40674 said: and the Philippine Insurrection. Couple chapters later we find her father was born in 1852. I guess the Philippine is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 15 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Lincoln was sending troops into SC. Sounds like an invasion. Okay, we have a lot of troops in California. If California put together troops of its own and fired on Camp Pendleton it would NOT be an invasion if the Marines wiped up those rebels. Your argument doesn't hold water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 California is not part of another country. South Carolina was part of another country - the Confederate States of America. And even though the CSA had tried, through diplomacy, to get the USA to withdraw their troops from CSA soil, Lincoln didn't do it. There for the CSA attacked an invading foreign army. Your comparison of California and South Carolina is like comparing apples and oranges. If you wish to compare apples to apples, compare the United States rebelling against England in 1776 with the Confederate States rebelling against the United States in 1861. That is the same thing. The only difference is that the South lost the Second American Revolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 3 hours ago, Alpo said: There for the CSA attacked an invading foreign army. An encamped “foreign” army. There was no “invasion” in progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Kansas is a separate country, it's in the way of Missouri going to Colorado for vacation in the mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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