The Wild and Weird History of Eggnog
The cozy cocktail has fueled prison parties and West Point riots.
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#JeffDavis was physically brave, and a good speaker with an ability to make extreme positions sound reasonable. The combination of fame from his Mexican War service, the backing of his brother’s wealth, and that fine ear for public opinion raised him to leadership in the Senate.
In 1884 Jefferson Davis finally realized that black people only ever worked for him because he had the full weight of state violence behind him. He saw this as a great tragedy…for himself. #HistoryBio #JeffDavis
In 1869 #JeffDavis became president of the Carolina Insurance company. His salary was 34x the average annual income. Brian Thompson made 260x the average American income to run United Healthcare. #HistoyBios
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it’s interesting that #JeffDavis faith in God deepened during the civil war. I don’t mean that sarcastically. Just think about it.
#HistoryBio #JeffDavis the core of Davis’ defense team were Northern Democrats. Prominent New York defense attorney Charles O’Connor took the lead, but on the team were former U.S. President Franklin Pierce,…
#GistoryBio #JeffDavis Modern news orgs, if they’d been around in the 1860’s, would have filled their papers with harangues against US soldiers for looting the wagons Jeff Davis tried to flee the country in.
#HistoryBio #JeffDavis on May 10th, 1865 Jefferson Davis was captured a day’s ride southwest of Abbeville, Georgia by troops from the 4th Michigan and 1st Wisconsin cavalries.
…to join up with Johnston and hunt for a series of decisive battles. That’s kind of dumb.
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“The day you make soldiers of them (slaves) is the beginning of the end of the Revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong” -Howell Cobb, 1865, Georgia
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With Atlanta, Savannah, and Charleston captured, the last port, Wilmington closed, Sherman rampaging through the Carolinas, and Grant squeezing Richmond, Davis still held out for terms. .
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In 1864 Davis told an unofficial delegation from DC that he had “not one drop of the blood shed in this war on my hands…I can look at my God and say this.”
Fuck this jackass. This dude tried to break the perpetual Union, and he ordered the assault on Ft Sumter.
A weird thing about the Confederacy is that its central government was powerful and active. It authorized conscription before the Union, suspended habeas corpus, and had legalized impressment of material. That, and the Executive dominated the other branches.
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Southern unity is a distortion attached to the “lost-cause,” myth. The South had as much dissent as any land engaged in a self inflicted disaster.
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