Replies to post #135535 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[hookrider]

kozuh:"PPS: The STATES came first; the STATES created the UNION and the STATES can end it or change it."

Hum, you left out the years 1861 to 1866. IMO they tried it your way and it didn't work out. What are you Rick Perry little brother???

[fuagf]

Edit: kozuh .. following on hookrider's reply you left out ..

# 1861 - Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
# 1861 - American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
# 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas)
# 1862 - Battle of Hampton Roads (Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack; first ever naval battle between iron-sided ships)
# 1862 - Homestead Act
# 1862 - Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
# 1862 - Gen. Robert E. Lee placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia
# 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas)
# 1862 - Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg)
# 1862 - Dakota War of 1862 begins
# 1862–1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
# 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
# 1863 - The Siege of Vicksburg ends
# 1863 - New York Draft Riots
# 1863 - Pro-Union Virginia counties become separate state of West Virginia
# 1864 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant put in command of all Union forces
# 1864 - Wade–Davis Bill
# 1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
# 1864 - Nevada becomes a state
# 1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864
# 1864 - Sherman's March to the Sea
# 1865 - Robert E. Lee made commander-in-chief of all Confederate forces
# 1865 - Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, captured by a corps of black Union troops
# 1865 - Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House
# 1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes President
# 1865 - American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender
# 1865 - 13th Amendment passes, permanently outlawing slavery
# 1865 - Freedman's Bureau
# 1866 - Civil Rights Act of 1866
# 1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history_%281860%E2%80%931899%29

Good one, hook..... .. yup, they tried taht ..

Edit: Have you read this beauty from F6? .. How Slavery Really Ended in America ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61643992&txt2find=butler

Maj. General Ben Butler .. a bonzer read!