If you could time travel, back to The Civil War and participate in it, which side would you join? Union? Confe

Question

Confederate? Why? Personally, I'd like to be numbered as one of the Union soldiers. 'Coz they seem so damn good!

Answer 1

union, because they wanted to reunite the nation and make blacks free, something that the Founding Fathers wanted for America.

Answer 2

I'd be an Ohio copperhead. If forced to actually join one side or the other, though, as a matter of principle I would have no choice but to leave home and don the gray. There's no way I would be able to support a war to "preserve the Union" - we had folks who thought like that in 1776; they were called Tories.

BTW nothing in Article I Section 10 prohibits secession. What it does to is prohibit states from waging war and entering into alliances on their own (while they are still part of the Union). Naturally these prohibitions would no longer apply after secession, which is a power reserved to the states by the 10th Amendment.

Answer 3

I would side with the Confederacy 100 percent. The South is my home and I'll always defend it no matter what. The South had every right to leave the union. We were being treated unfairly and still are to this day.
Union soldiers were not "good" as you say. Union Gen Sherman waged total war against civilians when he marched through Georgia, destroying homes, farms, everything in his path. He was a cruel and hated man. He is hated here to this day.

Answer 4

Impossible to answer today. It would simply depend on where you lived. Although I agree more with the Unions aims and goals, I am a staunch supporter of State's Rights. Yet State's Rights don't include secession (Article I, Section 10 for starters).

So it looks like I'm coming down more on the Union side. Plus, it would suck to fight against your family and I had family fighting from Michigan.

Answer 5

Union. Definitely.

Answer 6

If I were White, (which I'm not) I'd say the Union cause I would get to meet Lincoln; a president who always kept THE FOG of civil dissent away from the masses. But maybe the Confederacy cause then I'd be as stealthy as a GHOST during battles in my grey uniform (they wore grey to blend in with the gunpowder smoke).

However up north, I might meet a nice lady in a pub and give CHEERS to her. Then I'd use my time machine (like on STAR TREK) to meet the NEXT GENERATION of her family.

But then again, maybe down south I might meet a cute southern belle and her over-protective KUNG-FU master father and his servant, BENSON. I might even ask her wise mother that old question, "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" She might say that we may be different colors and live in different areas but we are all the same SPECIES and we should not be fighting one another especially on THE ROAD TO NASHVILLE.

Okay, I admit it. I was watching "North & South" before I came to your time. If you can guess my riddles, you are a genius. Gotta go, Doc's got the DeLorean ready to send me back to 1985.

Excelsior!

Answer 7

if to procure the money to realize this, the rifle will value you everywhere from 4 hundred to 600 money often times, the uniform will selection finding on the unit your with regardless of the undeniable fact that that is no longer cheap the two. most of the jackets run approximately 60 to a hundred money. some human beings i know have spent nicely over 1200 money. the main important possibility is overheating in the uniform in case you inquire from me. or you by no ability load a actual around into your rifle, you hearth the powder devoid of ammo. i think of the known rule is which you do no longer insert the ram rod into the rifle so as which you do no longer mistakenly hearth it into somebody.

Answer 8

Conferederate since I'm from Arkansas and can trace my lineage to Edmond Ruffin, who is historically known as the man that fired the first shot in the Civil War, on my father's side and Robert E. Lee on my mother's side.

Answer 9

The union, because they were fighting to preserve the United States.

Answer 10

confederacy, they've been given a bad rep since the victors write the history books, and im from the north. the south DID have a right to secede from the Union, they didn't want the feds to rule everything around them, and not many people understand only a small amount of southerners actually owned slaves, the soldiers couldn't even cloth themselves much less others

Answer 11

I would try to get Richmond to liberate the slaves, join the cause, defeat the draconian, nearly tyrannical policies of Lincoln and live in a land today that was much freer and closer to the original aims of the Founding Fathers.