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2002 Column Archives Last Updated: Apr 22nd, 2006 - 16:33:07


Woman in the Civil War
By John Sammon
Jun 2, 2002

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The feminist lunatic fringe engages in HHH, History Hormonal Hatred.

The politically correct left, when not promoting “diversity,” which sounds good on the surface, but really means throwing the borders open, giving the country away (they’re smart enough to know that if they call it “loss of sovereignty,” you won’t like it)…………are also trying to rewrite history.

This includes women fighting the Civil War.

A website titled “Women Warriors,” talks about women down through history fighting in every conflict. Installments include “Warrior Women of the Eurasian Steppes,” and “Women Warriors of Japan,” and of course the unforgettable, “Women Knights in the Middle Ages.”

First of all, if you use the word “warrior,” you’re very effeminate. A guy would call a soldier a “grunt,” or a “dogface,” or something like it, never a warrior.

Oh, look at me, I’m a warrior……well….laa-dee-daah!

A few women may actually have fought (briefly) in the Civil War. But 99.9 percent did not. The closest they came to the shooting was peripheral, nurses and spies like Belle Boyd.

Most women had to bear the war in their own unique way.

All a man soldier had to do in the Civil War was march, follow orders, starve, get shot at, maybe get killed, die of disease, watch his friends be blown apart. Most time was spent in the seemingly endless boredom of fatigue details, constructing officers’ quarters, swearing, playing cards, telling stories, whittling, and writing letters home.

What about the women left behind?

They had to shoulder the responsibility of managing, say, a 50-acre farm. There were no street lights in those days. The woods around the farm were dark, full of hidden dangers. There was no Safeway where you could run down and pick up a roast. Churning a piece of butter could take all day.

City dwellers faced their own problems. When Grant surrounded Vicksburg and starved the town, women in town starved too. They were bombarded too.

So, why do feminists brag about the more rare-than-not aspect of women taking up arms? Why do they largely ignore the reality of women maintaining a home front?

Simple! Being a house or farm wife is contemptible to feminists, not as dramatic as Pickett’s Charge.

The ultimate accolade for women is that they didn’t fight the war. Wars throughout history have been a stupid guy thing. Women didn’t invent slavery. A man did.

Feminists want to portray women being just as nasty and stupid as men. Unless you carry a gun and wear a uniform, you’re not part of the exclusive club.

Any jerk can pick up a rifle.

I think feminists are jealous of us guys, and our, “Civil War.”

Maybe Robert E. Lee was really a bearded gal in drag. When he got to his log cabin headquarters in the Wilderness, did he want to pick out drapes? If you find a tintype of him mounted on a horse side-saddle, it’s worth money.

The feminist website I mentioned earlier even has a section titled, “Jewish Women in the Civil War.” I am not anti-Semitic by the way. This “historic diversity” mania could lead to inclusion of every conceivable modern sociologic group in the Civil War. Here is a partial list of possible titles:

Eskimos who fought at Shiloh.

Cambodian immigrants’ Involvement in the New York Draft Riots.

Gays Who Served Jefferson Davis.

Lincoln was a Black Man.

Hispanics in the Irish Brigade.

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2002 Column Archives
Columns at a Glance
Santa Hats
Bush Decides
Not a War
Fact About Alcohol
High Noon for Saddam
Pro and Cons of Abortion
It Better be Perking
The Rosy Side of Armageddon
Clint Eastwood
Coke Smart
No Change Sept 11
Infestations
Boy Issues
Baseball Cheats
China Bogey
Martial Arts
Capital Punishment
Daughter
Pledge Untrue
Policing Thought
Fact About Marijuana
Woman in the Civil War
Pro and Cons of Cloning
Little Lulu
Mothers Day
Goldwater Holiday
Female Logic
Beneath Nothing
Step Up
Another Battle
Not Laughing
Terrorize Them
Shadow Government
Next Time
Disney Correct
Pained Reunions
Love Hate
End Run
The English
Words Evolve