Non union all the way.
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March 11, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Non Union? Hardly. This place was built and maintained by the Selected Labor Association of Various Enterprise known as SLAVE. It was a lifetime membership with no dues. Benefits included free housing and a food allowence, they only had to work for eighteen hours, the rest of the day could be spent at their leisure. Card holding members were free to increase membership at will, nepotism was not frowned upon. Advancement to House work was easily obtained by being light skinned and comely and skilled livery workers or smiths could secure a position of status on the property after apprentiveship. It’s no wonder that so many wanted to remain in this union after Massa was ordered to set them free. Free to be what? Homeless and starving? It’s like telling the lifelong welfare recipient today that they no longer qualify for public assistance.
Congratulations, you’ve made it, you’re on your own now and we wish you all the best! Good luck!
Don’t blow a Muse Fuse boys and girls, I’m just yanking your collective chain.
March 11, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Oh, well I see what you mean. …and coming at it another way, it was an all Union operation in the last few days of the civil war when the Union army took this house over during battle and used it as a field hospital. The blood stains and spatters were still plainly visible on the floor boards as of this morning.
…but my reference, albeit intentionally obtuse, was to my work and my new bus. prospecting done earlier today.
March 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM
I was just going off “free style” on your post. I am obsessed with reading history and the many great writer/historians who have penned so many compelling tomes about the civil war (little civil about it), the war of Northern Aggression/ the war between the States or whatever you wish to call this decisive, momentous test of our nation’s then young experiment in democracy and the subsequent healing of our collective soul in the aftermath of the horrible bloodletting that killed more of our own than in any war we have waged against other nations. When you are a true son of Virginia then you are steeped in the history of our nation and if we forget it we are doomed to repeat it.
March 11, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Any of you ever read Harry Turtledove’s alternate histories? He’s gone at great length to redo history with the CSA winning at Antietam because the orders in the cigar case are not found by the Union (that’s what I recall). I quit after the 6th volume where the US was allied with the Germans & Austrians and the CSA was allied the the UK & the Frogs. It just got too silly. I think there are 10 volumes or more on this cycle.
Old Harry’s got a PhD in Byzantine history and I guess he puts this to good use. His single volume works are less tedious. Like the redo on James Fenimore Cooper with Uncas being a Neanderthal or the one where the Spanish Armada wins & Willie Wigglestick meets Cervantes.
March 12, 2010 at 12:15 AM
My wife often reminds me that if the French had won the French and Indian War, America would less obese and more topless.
March 12, 2010 at 6:48 AM
Turtledove has another series where the Earth is invaded by LIzardmen during WWII and the Allies & the Axis join forces to fight them.
He’s won a Hugo & a Nebula, if any of yez are skiffy otaku.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove
March 12, 2010 at 6:51 AM
If the French had won the French and Indian War we’d have poutine stands on every corner. And we’d cuss different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity
March 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM
I knew I had achieved a linguistic goal in my study of French when I could cuss as good in French as in English. Although there’s nothing like them one-syllable four-letter Anglo-Saxon words for a good onomatopoeic cuss.
Quebeckers talk funny.
March 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Where is this, by the way? I was hoping to get back to Virginia next month, but it’s looking less and less likely.
March 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM
It’s near Farmville, at Sailor’s Creek or Sayler’s Creek. It was the scene of the last battle of the civil war before the surrender at Appomattox. 7,700 casualties two days before the surrender.
March 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM
This battle called “Sailors Creek” but more accurately “Saylers Creek”,
named after the property owner, was a bad blow to the Army of Northern Virginia. A fourth of the army was cut off by Sheridan’s fast cavalry and other Union corps pursuing them in their flight to Carolina after the fall of Richmond and Petersburg where they were supposed to hook up with Gen. Johnston’s forces (I think). Nine Confederate Generals surrendered including Gen. Ewell, and Gen. Meriwether Lewis Clark the son of William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame hence his name. Clark married a girl from Kentucky named Abigail Churchill and their son Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. was instrumental in creating the site of the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs. Commander John Randolph Tucker led a Confederate naval squadron of some 400 in this battle so sailors really did fight at Saylors Creek. This battle was probably the death knell of the CSA and led shortly to the surrender at Appomattox.
I hope Boatdog helps to preserve, protect and promote this historic site.