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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series marking the 120th anniversary of Niles native William McKinley’s U.S. presidency.
Even though this column doesn’t follow the 120-year timeline, the Tribune Chronicle and writers of this column felt it was very important to recognize McKinley once more for his service in the Civil War.
The McKinley Memorial completed its “A Living History of the Civil War” program with an encampment and exhibits with re-enactors this past weekend at the museum. Gerald Payn of Wooster portrayed President Abraham Lincoln and Youngstown State University Professor Dr. Amy L. Fluker provided insight into the locals who participated in the Civil War. Musician Scott Ball also performed music from the Civil War and displayed sheet music from that era.
fight. and that s a different issue than what your political allegiance is going to be. so that to some degree imprisons them. that s part of the reason, but part of the reason is that guerrilla warfare is a lot more problematic and has all sorts of problems and complications that probably would not have made it a viable solution anyways even if these guys did do that, even though some confederates talked about it. that doesn t mean it would have worked. sir, i believe there s actually quite a definitive book on that exact subject right there called west pointers in the civil war which discusses that same yeah. it does talk about some of those things. mr. swain. is there an honor or integrity question with guerrilla warfare? yes, precisely. it s not that the regular army folks have no experience with it. they do, because who do they fight before the war? the indians. the indians, all right. they re all veterans of the indian wars, and they deal with guerrillas
that the more plausible military strategy is the fabian strategy. they may be both right and that s probably the biggest problem is making those two compatible. now we circle back to lee. do we think of lee as someone whose strategy well, here is this. do you think lee s strategy was plausible? no. say why? the south never had enough men or enough industry to compete with the north. the north was too big of power. i forget, i think it was in the gallagher reading quoting as saying the north fought with a hand tied behind their back. shelby foote. so the juggernaut of northern industrialization and man power would have overwhelmed the south regardless. i think one of lee s biggest problems is he was too oriented on virginia and his home state and that close to completely neglect the west when he could have perhaps shifted troops up there and helped work some of the southern defeats there. and he did well for himself for the most part in virginia and sacrificed the
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