I bought this of Amazon a day ago and its an amazing graphic novel of the last year of Cleburnes life and is probably the best graphic novel I have ever read. It does a good job portraying what Cleburne and his men fought for and wen through and has no biased view on the South and shows that many as Cleburne weren't fightin for slavery, they fought for their homes and the people they loved. It shows Cleburnes dream to recruit slaves into service to guarantee their freedom. Highly recomended.
@gsxraddict Really?! Oh man that would be great! Just the part with the Battle of Franklin and the piano scene in the graphic novel would be enough to make the whole thing!
good book the only reason i read it's cuz my familys a confederate and i was the only one who didnt know the real history! i guess i just like my iPod! Plus it was a comic!!!!!!!
President Davis and the planter elites would not listen to the appeal of reason. If only they had listened, the Cofederates would have had a real chance to win! Cleburne's plan meant the ultimate death of slavery in the South, as surely as did Lincoln's Emanmcipation Proclamation [which did not, of course, free the slaves in the border states].
@ewancummins Lincoln's "Emancipation" freed no one, it was rhetoric aimed at the South, a region that had already seceded, in a propaganda ploy to get slaves to rebel. It didn't work. Lincoln cared nothing for African descendants, free or or enslaved, he cared about the economics of losing Southern plantation crops, there were more millionaires in Mississippi in 1860 than in any other place on earth, digest that for a second.
@Speegs23 The Army freed slaves as it advanced into Confederate territory, and many runaways ended up working in Army camps (some not so willingly, others under better conditions). I don't see how you think Lincoln cared nothing for blacks.'Nothing' is a bit of a stretch. He was an anti-slavery man, but he was not a radical Abolitionist. He actually favored colonization of blacks, for a long time. His primary concern during the war, as he always said, was to preserve the Union.
You have to remember, back then the thinking was blacks could not fight in a disciplined military manner, plus southerners just didn't want them involved.
You have to consider the mindset of people 150 years ago.
Many in the North didn't want the negros in their own military either.
In fact, blacks were not even used for combat regularly until the Koren War.
True as applies to the Confederate Govt in Richmond. But keep in mind that the States had quite a bit of independent power in those days, the individual States even more so in the Confederacy. The Louisiana Native Guard a prime example of this. In that State, blacks did fight, and many blacks today are members, in leadership roles, in the Sons of the Confederacy (made up of those whose ancestors fought with honor in the War for Southern Independence).
@seeingthesigns Actually the Union Army used black troops in combat on a regular basis in 1864. Black troops fought at Ft. Pillow, Brice's Cross Roads, Tupelo, Nashville, Port Hudson, Miliken's Bend, and Petersburg.
@bigreed67 yes but the first free black units were actually in louisiana, free blacks also were slave owners in many instances, despite that politically incorrect footnote of history.
ultimately the war had nothing to do with the ethics of slavery, only the economics of it, the war was one about economy as the South provide 80 percent of the earth's most precious cash crop, cotton, and Northern industry and textile turned huge profit off of it, losing it would've been devastating. Money war.
okay, Richmond SERIOUSLY had to be the most retarded city in the world. Here comes along the brilliant General Cleburne with a very smart idea of raising HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of new troops to serve the south and without a doubt, win the entire war and the south's independence! but richmond couldnt seem to pull its head out of its ass and refuse Cleburne's offer just because the new troops were fucking black! WTF???
I bought this of Amazon a day ago and its an amazing graphic novel of the last year of Cleburnes life and is probably the best graphic novel I have ever read. It does a good job portraying what Cleburne and his men fought for and wen through and has no biased view on the South and shows that many as Cleburne weren't fightin for slavery, they fought for their homes and the people they loved. It shows Cleburnes dream to recruit slaves into service to guarantee their freedom. Highly recomended.
AUG351 2 months ago
I grew up in cleburne...there is now a road there with my last name...gardega road
sketchyfolk 1 year ago
cleburne is small as hell
progresso11 1 year ago
I have this graphic novel and it is excellent! I believe that it would make a great movie, if only Hollywood would have the courage to pick up on it.
darthroden 1 year ago
@darthroden cleburne the movie
they are doing it supposedly
gsxraddict 1 year ago
@gsxraddict Really?! Oh man that would be great! Just the part with the Battle of Franklin and the piano scene in the graphic novel would be enough to make the whole thing!
darthroden 1 year ago
good book the only reason i read it's cuz my familys a confederate and i was the only one who didnt know the real history! i guess i just like my iPod! Plus it was a comic!!!!!!!
Jesslayc 1 year ago
President Davis and the planter elites would not listen to the appeal of reason. If only they had listened, the Cofederates would have had a real chance to win! Cleburne's plan meant the ultimate death of slavery in the South, as surely as did Lincoln's Emanmcipation Proclamation [which did not, of course, free the slaves in the border states].
ewancummins 3 years ago
@ewancummins Lincoln's "Emancipation" freed no one, it was rhetoric aimed at the South, a region that had already seceded, in a propaganda ploy to get slaves to rebel. It didn't work. Lincoln cared nothing for African descendants, free or or enslaved, he cared about the economics of losing Southern plantation crops, there were more millionaires in Mississippi in 1860 than in any other place on earth, digest that for a second.
Speegs23 3 months ago
@Speegs23 The Army freed slaves as it advanced into Confederate territory, and many runaways ended up working in Army camps (some not so willingly, others under better conditions). I don't see how you think Lincoln cared nothing for blacks.'Nothing' is a bit of a stretch. He was an anti-slavery man, but he was not a radical Abolitionist. He actually favored colonization of blacks, for a long time. His primary concern during the war, as he always said, was to preserve the Union.
ewancummins 3 months ago
This could be interesting. So long as it doesn't simply follow the SCV party line I'd like to have a look at it when it comes out.
madtal 3 years ago
Good thinking. At least Glory doesn't tow the Union party line!
jeffhegarty 3 years ago
You have to remember, back then the thinking was blacks could not fight in a disciplined military manner, plus southerners just didn't want them involved.
You have to consider the mindset of people 150 years ago.
Many in the North didn't want the negros in their own military either.
In fact, blacks were not even used for combat regularly until the Koren War.
seeingthesigns 3 years ago
True as applies to the Confederate Govt in Richmond. But keep in mind that the States had quite a bit of independent power in those days, the individual States even more so in the Confederacy. The Louisiana Native Guard a prime example of this. In that State, blacks did fight, and many blacks today are members, in leadership roles, in the Sons of the Confederacy (made up of those whose ancestors fought with honor in the War for Southern Independence).
iamericanright 2 years ago
@seeingthesigns Actually the Union Army used black troops in combat on a regular basis in 1864. Black troops fought at Ft. Pillow, Brice's Cross Roads, Tupelo, Nashville, Port Hudson, Miliken's Bend, and Petersburg.
bigreed67 1 year ago
@bigreed67 yes but the first free black units were actually in louisiana, free blacks also were slave owners in many instances, despite that politically incorrect footnote of history.
ultimately the war had nothing to do with the ethics of slavery, only the economics of it, the war was one about economy as the South provide 80 percent of the earth's most precious cash crop, cotton, and Northern industry and textile turned huge profit off of it, losing it would've been devastating. Money war.
Speegs23 3 months ago
okay, Richmond SERIOUSLY had to be the most retarded city in the world. Here comes along the brilliant General Cleburne with a very smart idea of raising HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of new troops to serve the south and without a doubt, win the entire war and the south's independence! but richmond couldnt seem to pull its head out of its ass and refuse Cleburne's offer just because the new troops were fucking black! WTF???
Smitheeboy94 3 years ago
I look forward to reading it.
BenAliGtor 3 years ago