bobby (frociaggine): today is the 161st anniversary of pickett’s charge, when 12,000 confederates marched across 3/4 of a mile of open land, directly into constant rifle and artillery fire. half the confederates were killed, wounded, or captured in the slaughter, a turning point in the battle of gettysburg and the war

today is the 161st anniversary of pickett’s charge, when 12,000 confederates marched across 3/4 of a mile of open land, directly into constant rifle and artillery fire. half the confederates were killed, wounded, or captured in the slaughter, a turning point in the battle of gettysburg and the war

I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:

this should be the national holiday

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My racist grandad from the south would use ‘shermanized’ to describe food too burnt to eat.

I think April 9th is a better date. Get the real Confederate flag, the white one with three thin red lines (it was a repurposed dishtowel). newrepublic.com/article/1214...

Make the Confederacy’s Defeat a National Holidaynewrepublic.com 150 years ago this week, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.

do a series of holidays, like how some national historic sites are actually multiple related locations

americanart.si.edu/blog/sonya-c...

How nice, a black woman made a monument scale Confederate flag! Very cool, LMAO

The state of Minnesota still has a Virginia confederate battle flag from Gettysburg. Virginia asks for it back from time to time and Mn says to fuck off - winners keepers. Ventura was much more animated about it. Anyway - it still sits locked away in Minnesota.

and that’s the right way to do it. furthermore i have always disliked virginia

I live down the street from the John Brown Bell. We are never giving it back.

I mean that's probably the best part of being in Minnesota government is that you can say as an official act "lmao get wrekt nerds"

One of my favorite battlefield guides, Tim Smith, said that after Pickett's Charge, Union General Alexander Hays rode up and down the line shouting "VICTORY! VICTORY!", dragging Confederate battle flags behind his horse, tramping over the dead rebels "in the true spirit of Pittsburgh sportsmanship"

(Tim is a Ravens fan)

As interpreted in art by Mark Bradford! hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/...

Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonianhirshhorn.si.edu “Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice. I’m standing in the middle of a question about where we are as a nation.”—Mark Bradford Images Videos Related […]

Oh holy moly. I never realized that’s what that exhibit represented. I missed the Hirshhorn on my last visit to D.C. I’ve never seen it without the Nicholas Party curtains on the outside!

The anniversary of Lee and Longstreet getting absolutely pwnt is always a good one.

This makes the Faulkner essay about Pickett's Charge especially funny. discerninghistory.com/2013/06/reli...

Reliving the Battle of Gettysburg – William Faulkner Quotediscerninghistory.com

1st Minnesota for the Win.

my great grandfather was Carl Pickett. I’ve often wondered if he was related to that racist moron. entirely possible; plenty of racist morons in my almost entirely Southern family tree.

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