{"id":76388,"date":"2024-07-12T04:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=76388"},"modified":"2024-07-12T04:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:04:53","slug":"long-live-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/long-live-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66671 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/CoDixie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Abraham Lincoln once asked General (Winfield) Scott this question: <em>&#8220;Why is it that you were once able to take Mexico City in three months with five thousand men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with one hundred thousand men?&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>&#8220;I will tell you,&#8221;<\/em> said General Scott. <em>&#8220;The men who took us into Mexico City are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>[Confederate Veteran Magazine, September 1913, page 471.]<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76389 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Confederacy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Confederacy.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Confederacy-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69117 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rebels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rebels.jpg 552w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rebels-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72018 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rebel-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rebel-Flag.jpg 549w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rebel-Flag-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abraham Lincoln once asked General (Winfield) Scott this question: &#8220;Why is it that you were once able to take Mexico City in three months with five thousand men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with one hundred thousand men?&#8221; &#8220;I will tell you,&#8221; said General Scott. &#8220;The men who took us into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,476,477,8448,14953,14779],"tags":[8798,17540,14237,9765],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76414,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76388\/revisions\/76414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}