Do you know what a Scallywag was?

[ILLYRIAN]

I wrote a fan-fic that took a year or two to finish, I mentioned it to a friend but the friend asked what a Scallywag was? I had not even thought of that, so here is the answer.
During World War 2 certain people were recruited by the War Office to be resistance fighters should Germany invade. They were doctors, midwives, senior nurses, senior police and magistrates. They were to be like the French Resistance fighter only the Scallywags were created solely by Britain unlike the French Resistance that was started by the British and American's to cause additional mayhem to the German army in readiness for the invasion.

 

[AndrewCrossett]

I know the word "scalawag" was also used during Reconstruction, after the U.S. Civil War to refer to white southerners who worked for or with the federal government.

 

[white avenger]

I know the word "scalawag" was also used during Reconstruction, after the U.S. Civil War to refer to white southerners who worked for or with the federal government.

Scalawags were considered to be even lower scum than carpetbaggers during what is (inaccurately) referred to as the Reconstruction Period after the War Of Northern Aggression (also known as the American Civil War)

 

[Cohen]

Why do people refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Agression? I hear that a lot.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

carpetbaggers

All I know about carpetbaggers I learned from Gone with the Wind.

 

[Buffy Summers]

Why do people refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Agression? I hear that a lot.

That's what (some) Southerners call it, because the North didn't allow the South to secede from the Union. So at the time Southerners called it the War of Northern Aggression which implied the North as the separate aggressor as opposed to a Civil War which implied that the South didn't have the right to be its own country and therefore was the cause of the war. The South saw them as two separate nations while the North saw them as one nation divided.

 

[Cohen]

Even though they were making their own money, had their own militia, and had their own "government," as they lost the Civil War, and the Union never declared them independent, I see it like the North. Two divided parts of one country who fought each other.

 

[white avenger]

Why do people refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression? I hear that a lot.

Actually, it's just a joke, like calling it the War Between The Yankees And The Americans. We don't really take it (the title, not the event) all that seriously. It was a tragedy and one of the darkest times in the history of our nation. There was right and wrong on both sides, and ironically, the Cessation made any sort of meaningful solution impossible. When you can't talk, too often, you end up shooting.

 

[Cohen]

I do think of it as a growing time for our nation and a good place to look back to when it comes to modern day disputes. Like "here are some things that lead to the first CiVil war, let's talk this out so we don't get back to that". I've always believed it's difficult to govern such a large nation--population wise and land wise. We have natural schisms and divisions based on our cultural differences in different pets of the nation. And you can't make everyone happy, and when you multiple different sides by the millions, things get merky.

 

[Fuffy Baith]

Will now I feel like an idiot. I thought it was a pirate term. Like "curse ye scallywag!" Thanks for the history lesson guys, i feel smarter now.

 

[white avenger]

One last comment about the Civil War. The ironic thing about the war is that if the Southern states had not seceded, or tried to, anyhow, they would have been able to vote AGAINST the Emancipation Proclamation, keeping the institution of slavery intact, at least on a short term.

 

[gite63]

One more last comment about the Civil War...

Trivia

Many people from the South decided to leave the country after the War and start a new life elsewhere. They ended up in Brazil, settling in Americana.

Our “Queen of Rock” Rita Lee Jones (talking about being a fan, I was a huge fan of hers when I was younger) is a descendant from one of those families. The last name "Lee" is a homage to Robert E. Lee. Her aunt Judith MacKnight Jones wrote Soldier Rest!, about the Southern Immigration.

 

[white avenger]

One last comment about the Civil War. The ironic thing about the war is that if the Southern states had not seceded, or tried to, anyhow, they would have been able to vote AGAINST the Emancipation Proclamation, keeping the institution of slavery intact, at least on a short term.

A revision on this statement is required. The Emancipation Proclamation was a Presidential Decree or Executive order, and applied only to those states IN CONFLICT with the Union. This was Lincoln's attempt to force the Confederate States back into the Union peacefully. Slavery wasn't abolished throughout the United States until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865.